From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Oct 6 11:35:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13226 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12819 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@westongold.com) Received: from [158.152.96.124] (helo=wgp01.wgold.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zQbus-0001lZ-00; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:32:58 +0000 Received: by WGP01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:57:24 +0100 Message-ID: <32BABEF63EAED111B2C5204C4F4F502017F7@WGP01> From: James Mansion To: Steve Passe , vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: RE: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:57:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its all very well, but SCSI disks are a LOT more expensive than IDE ones. Might be faster IO per drive with SCSI, but I'd rather have twice the capacity and spend the remainder on more RAM. James > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Passe [mailto:smp@csn.net] > SNIP > > > If you are going to multiple disks and have the money, SCSI is the > > way to go. But IDE disks are so much less! For a single drive, > > the new IDE DMA driver does as well as SCSI. > > I agree with this point, but I think of SCSI as much more than a disk > controller. I typically hang a jaz or zip drive off it, plus a SCSI > DAT tape for backup, or possibly a scanner, or a CD-ROM drive, or ... > > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message