Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Dec 1998 05:29:03 +0000 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? |
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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?
Just basically wrong nowadays.
CPU load for IDE is same or less than SCSI, I/O speeds can be the same with similar drives, or faster with 10000rpm SCSI drives.
For a desktop machine with internal drives, the rest is pretty much indistinguishable.
For high-end servers, or machines with external drives, SCSI seems the way to go. -- mlord@pobox.com
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