From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 8 12:51:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA29640 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA29623 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 12:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id UAA26800 for FreeBSD.ORG!current; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:42:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:41:22 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19970908114806.25653@lemis.com> References: <199709080134.SAA09715@MindBender.serv.net>; from Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:34:18PM -0700 <341344B3.57D10484@kew.com> <199709080134.SAA09715@MindBender.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:36:16 +0100 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 3:18 +0100 8/9/97, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 06:34:18PM -0700, Michael L. VanLoon -- >HeadCandy.com wrote: >[...] >> Unfortunately, the extra quality and performance that SCSI can >> potentially bring, commonly comes at a higher price. > >The annoying thing is that the price isn't that much higher. It's >just because the volume market is (E)IDE that the prices difference is >exaggerated. In the UK at least, it pays to check prices of SCSI drives with the Macmongers; prices tend to be much closer to (E)IDE levels because they shift a *much* higher proportion of SCSI. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK