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Subject: Re: scsi performance these days
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Jim Pazarena <fquest@ccstores.com> writes:

> does FreeBSD (6.1) "still" operate better on a SCSI drive
> system compared to EIDE or SATA ?

For some values of better, yes.  Especially if the drive supports
tagged queueing and your environment has a number of different
workloads competing with each other.  For other values of better, no.