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Re: Giant EIDE Hard Disks (was: RE: Question about schedule jobs)



On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:48:38PM +0200, PLP wrote:
> 
> Why do you keep advocating things you do not understand properly ? The
> price of the SCSI junk will buy you a second PC with the same
> configuration as the 1st one and leave some money for ice cream & lunch. 
> Also, using SCSI on a server connected over ISDN (I suppose) is a pure
> destilled waste of hardware and money. Moreover, the IDE solution will be
> faster than SCSI on HX or VX chipsets due to the direct PCI mapping of the
> driver interface. And I think that 4 * 14 GB is way enough for a Linux
> mirror.

Thant's NOT precise. SCSI (on an HX chipset, thank you, and on a 430FX
to boot) gives much better performance under Linux when (note, original
asker) simultaneous/users processes are at work. If the server's loaded,
SCSI _may_ lighten the load. Problem is, of course, you have to buy top-
notch SCSI equipment, roughly doubling the price (about which PLP is
rught).

Answer to Omer - Peter's right, if a little conservative, about IDE disk
sizes - these trail SCSI only slightly and I think I saw adverts for 18MB
IDE devices from either IBM or Seagate.

> Why not pick up a book about server setup and dimensioning (possibly not
> one from a hardware vendor <g>) and do some reading before you start ?

Why not suggest a book to him - or should we change your name to Pontius?

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