Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:35:09 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI for home system? Message-ID: <9605302135.AA28957@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 1996 12:42:55 PDT." <m0uOr8x-00068NC@main.statsci.com>
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> Hi- > > Yes...I understand that SCSI drives would give me better performance, but...at It depends... I got a seagate hawk 4gigabyte on an adaptec 1522 and a seagate IDE (I think) on a PB 100 Mhz pentium... I get about 3.5 Mbytes/second on the IDE, 1.5 Mbytes/second on the hawk... On my sunsparction5 I get about 1.1 mbytes, so I'm not too concerned... (BTW -- on the adaptec 1522 I don't have fast scsi jumpered, I did when I installed it and didn't see much of a difference...should I?) > At any rate, I've been thinking of adding a couple Gig of disk space and > looking at the prevailing (low end) prices, the 2Gb IDE drives for ~$300 look > awful attractive. Are there any good reasons for spending twice as much on a > SCSI drive? I figure I can put the new drive off its own IDE interface and I think scsi is the way to go for external swapped device...internal, I have to wonder... I say save your money... -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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