From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 18 23:11:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA27161 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 23:11:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA27153 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 23:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from blob.best.net (blob.best.net [204.156.128.88]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id JAA09947 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from geli.clusternet (rcarter.vip.best.com [204.156.137.2]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA10656; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:21:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by geli.clusternet (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00440; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:20:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199512121720.JAA00440@geli.clusternet> X-Authentication-Warning: geli.clusternet: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: ctassell@isn.net (Charles Tassell) cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI vs EIDE In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 1995 05:10:59 EST." <199512121028.GAA15284@phoenix.isn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:20:47 -0800 From: "Russell L. Carter" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk } I'm setting up an ISP for a guy who REALLY wants to use EIDE 4 drives } (transfer rate around 12 meg/s I think he said) Now considering the fact that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I would really like to see the EIDE system which can actually benchmark to the drive at a rate 1/3 as large. In other words, I doubt you can buy an EIDE system which will reach half as fast as either the NCR or the Adaptec PCI controllers connected up to any of half a dozen 7200rpm SCSI drives. I have SCSI data on my web site. I strongly suggest running a 100 or 200 MB bonnie on the candidate EIDE system, and comparing to my data. Regards, Russell http://www.geli.com } all PCI boards come with build in EIDE controllers in them, why is everyone so } big on SCSI? } } I'd personally rather use SCSI myself, just because I have doubts as to } whether or not EIDE is really as stable as they say, but I may be outvoted in } this. Can anyone out there come up with some convincing arguments why to go } SCSI? BTW: The machine is going to be an all-in one server: news, mail, WWW, } DNS, terminal server (yey! this wont crash often ) And, we might run BSD } instead of FreeBSD. } } Charles Tassell - ctassell@isn.net } http://www.isn.net/~ctassell/index.html } Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the least.... }