Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:35:33 +1000 (AEST) | From | Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB <> | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? |
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1. Some hard disk manufactures are using same disk drive (physically) to make SCSI and ATA. They only change the PCB board.
2. SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 have 8 bit data bus, while ATA have 16 bit data bus.
3. ATA got disk cache built in as well.
4. Some low end of SCSI host card is only 8 Bit card.
Compare by yourself.
Leonard
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard > > disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI. > > For real work patterns SCSI tends to be faster than IDE. Also for high > end devices SCSI is wonderful. Most of my smaller boxes are IDE- its just > not worth the price difference > >
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