Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 11:37:45 +0530 From: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD cpu usage (IDE vs. SCSI). Message-ID: <199604020607.AA262345266@fakir.india.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 14:44:59 %2B0930." <199604020515.OAA11178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>>>>> "ms" == "Michael Smith" >>>> jk> The issue really is how much performance you are getting for your rupee. jk> The last time I checked here, a 1-disk SCSI sub-system cost around twice as jk> much as an equivalent IDE 1-disk sub-system. ms> This doesn't hold for larger disk capacities. How much would you pay for a ms> 7200rpm 4GB IDE disk? Yes, you have a point there :-). You know, it would be nice if we had a "Buying Hardware for FreeBSD" section in the handbook in which many of the points that keep coming up can be written out for new folks. EG:- Experiences with motherboards, graphics chipsets, cards controllers, disks. Beware the: frumious RZ1000. cyrix write back caching, no caching > 64MB in some mother boards motherboards w/o cache consistency support the vlb master slot problem Mach64 / sio3 port clashes et al. Advice to people setting up news servers, gateways, or personal play machines. Discussions of tradeoffs; limits run into: Eg: the MEMSIZE option to the kernel what kind of configurations are good for 10/100/1000 users when SCSI is cost effective and when IDE is good enough Tuning the OS maybe; setting up partitions for netnews (inodes mix) better NFS performance thru any magic Is anyone doing this kind of compilation already? Koshyhome | help
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