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To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 23:27:18 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 10:17:36 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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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