Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 02:43:12 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2G SCSI disks? Message-ID: <199702041043.CAA22950@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 04 Feb 97 16:13:55 %2B1030. <199702040543.QAA10839@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>Failing that, has anyone done anything with the new Maxtor
>"DiamondMax" disks? Or have any suggestions for IDE disks that are
>likely to come close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk?
... "close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk" only if you don't
have any concurrency! There IS a difference.
Remind yourself that there's a reason RAID towers don't use SCSI
drives...
(Which is fine if you know what you're getting into, but don't truly
expect IDE to be able to do everything as well as SCSI, no matter what
the marketing people say.)
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