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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ricky Beam wrote: ... > IDE is just fine for toys. It's a serious pain in the ass for any serious > work. my goodness; it's been so long since l-k saw this traditional sport! nothing much has changed in the intrim: SCSI still costs 2-3x as much, and still offers the same, ever-more-niche set of advantages (decent hotswap, somewhat higher reliability, moderately higher performance, easier expansion to more disks and/or other devices.) > It takes expensive hardware RAID cards to make IDE tolerable. (and > I'm not talking about the 30$ PoS HPT crap.) besides having missed the last 2-3 generations of ATA (which include things like diskconnect), you have clearly not noticed that entry-level hardware with PoS UDMA100 controllers can sustain more bandwidth than you can hope to consume (120 MB/s is pretty easy, even on 32x33 PCI!) > PS: I once turned down a 360MHz Ultra10 in favor of a 167MHz Ultra1 because > of the absolutely shitty IDE performance. The U1 was actually faster > at compiling software. (Solaris 2.6, btw) yeah, if Sun can't make IDE scream, then no one can eh? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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