Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:18:53 +1000 (AEST) | | From | Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB <> | | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? |
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IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI.
Regards.
Leonard
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Russell Leighton wrote:
> What are good rules of "thumb" for > choosing IDE vs SCSI when building > a Linux system? > > Both are fast these days...I always > thought that IDE==cheap, but loaded > the CPU, so you didn't want that in > a server or high performance machine > that might be busy with other things > besides waiting for the current disk > transfer...is that fair? just basically > wrong? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Russell Leighton leighton@imake.com http://www.imake.com > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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