Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Message-ID: <199810072111.OAA00662@math.berkeley.edu>
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> > > > Might be faster IO per drive with SCSI, but I'd rather have twice the > > > > capacity and spend the remainder on more RAM. > > The I/O is faster by a factor of N, where N is the number of tagged > commands supported by the drive. For IBM drives, SCSI can be as much > as 64 times faster than IDE because it can be as much as 64 times more > concurrent. Did I ever buy a used car from you? Dan Strick dan@math.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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