Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 10:17:36 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) Message-ID: <E0wwrjM-0007Z5-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 23:27:18 CDT." <199708080427.XAA02012@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199708080427.XAA02012@dyson.iquest.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <199708080427.XAA02012@dyson.iquest.net> "John S. Dyson" writes: : out-perform an IDE system -- however, 4GB for about $300 is very : tempting. A good I've found that IDE drives are great for when you need to keep large amounts of data online, but don't necessarily need that to be hugely fast. They perform OK on world build boxes, but SCSI has been better by 20% or so for me. My OpenBSD and NetBSD source trees on my FreeBSD box live either on IDE or on a JAZ cart. Given the cost of IDE drives these days, it is a lot cheaper and easier to migrate towards using cheap IDE drives for my big storage needs and away from the JAZ drive for that. As always, backups for a system are critical :-) Warner
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E0wwrjM-0007Z5-00>