Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:40:32 -0600 From: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) To: smp@csn.net Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Message-ID: <199810041840.MAA08710@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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> Don't cheap-out on SCSI, its only about $120 more for u2w capability: > > ASUS P2B-D Dual Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $299 > ASUS P2B-DS Pentium II AGP ATX Motherboard $419 > > Much cheaper than adding a card later... I've really become a fan of the > Asus P2B-DS, I can do a "make -j12 buildworld" in about 40 minutes (3 > spindles on u2w cheetahs). If you are going to multiple disks and have the money, SCSI is the way to go. But IDE disks are so much less! For a single drive, the new IDE DMA driver does as well as SCSI. I went with a U2W Barracuda and P2B-DS. I can't afford 3 Cheetah drives for my home PC, and some people can't afford $400 extra for SCSI, when a 7200RPM Medalist Pro IDE drive will be basically as fast. But, then again, you bought faster CPUs too. That $400 difference between IDE and SCSI is also the price difference between a single 350MHz-CPU motherboard and a dual-capable MB with a second 350MHz CPU. In servers, or multiple-disk environments, go SCSI. If you have the money, go SCSI. But if you have to cut something for a desk PC, get a dual over SCSI. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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