From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 14:35:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28910 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28869 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15187(6)>; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:35:00 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-TB) id AA14647; Thu, 30 May 96 17:35:11 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28957; Thu, 30 May 96 17:35:10 EDT Message-Id: <9605302135.AA28957@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: Scott Blachowicz Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI for home system? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 1996 12:42:55 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:35:09 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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