From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 16:40:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D82E37B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30338 invoked by uid 100); 6 May 2001 23:40:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15093.57575.793791.196653@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:40:23 -0500 To: "Christopher Leigh" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: for a server, SCSI or IDE? In-Reply-To: <36871676@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Leigh types: > my friend wants to build a 1GHz pentium server. > should he get an IDE or SCSI drive? > if they both go 7200rpm, then what's the big whoop/the cost difference > for? SCSI gets better performance in multidrive systems. Buying several small SCSI drives and building a software raid system will provide better performance than 1 drive - and SCSI is the only way to go for that. You might also want to check the softupdates thread on -stable (I think that's it). Getting an IDE drive into a reliable configuration may be problematical, but see the thread if you're worried about reliability. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message