From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Oct 7 14:12:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23623 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:12:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from math.berkeley.edu (math.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.183.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23592 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@math.berkeley.edu) Received: (from dan@localhost) by math.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00662; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Message-Id: <199810072111.OAA00662@math.berkeley.edu> To: tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Might be faster IO per drive with SCSI, but I'd rather have twice the > > > > capacity and spend the remainder on more RAM. > > The I/O is faster by a factor of N, where N is the number of tagged > commands supported by the drive. For IBM drives, SCSI can be as much > as 64 times faster than IDE because it can be as much as 64 times more > concurrent. Did I ever buy a used car from you? Dan Strick dan@math.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message