From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 17:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet03.citec.qld.gov.au (inet03.citec.qld.gov.au [203.5.10.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91A114E96 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au) Received: by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au; id LAA22556; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:12:28 +1000 (EST) Received: from guru.citec.qld.gov.au( 147.132.20.47) by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma012507; Thu, 4 Nov 99 11:05:38 +1000 Received: from localhost (sgcccdc@localhost) by guru.citec.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA21550 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:05:44 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: guru.citec.qld.gov.au: sgcccdc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:05:44 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI v IDE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am looking at putting together a web server/cache system. At the moment I am torn between say $2500 for an IDE-based system or $3500 for a SCSI system. The system is PIII, with memory (of course :-) and 2x9GB disk for web only or 2x18GB if I add cache. I have read in many places that SCSI is "better" (due to the ability of the controller to issue multiple commands to the disks). But if I have two IDEs, each on its own controller is there any real performance benefit with SCSI, assuming the disks are similar in performance characteristics? Colin -- Colin Campbell Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster CITEC +61 7 3227 7112 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message