| From: | Tudor Davies |
| Date: | 17 May 2000 at 16:25:27 |
| Subject: | Re: SCSI -> IDE |
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Michael Carter wrote:
> >Would it be of much benefit (i.e., are we likely to see much of a speed
> >improvement over IDE), assuming it works?
>
> Well the main idea i had was just to plug more HDDs on to my SCSI chain
> because IDE is a) full up and b) a bit flakey on the A1200 m/b, the SCSI on
> the blizzppc is gonna be much faster/better :)
But hang on - the fastest IDE UDMA/66 is nowhere near the speed of Ultra
SCSI-2 - you will essentially be crippling your SCSI interface by doing this
as the whole chain will lower itself to a speed that the worst device can
handle.
So if you already have Ultra SCSI-2 devices and love the fact that it is
blisteringly fast, then forget about this idea, but if all you want it big
disk at a cheap price, then fair enough.
But the speed is the whole point of SCSI...
My 040/25 A4000T with SCSI-2 HDDs seems faster than my 060/50 A4000D with IDE
- purely because of the SCSI.
l8r
Tudor Davies Running Amiga, Mac, PC & Unices
Technology in Perfect Harmony
Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org Specialist in Internet Security & ISP
Email: tudor@high5.net Support (RADIUS, Firewalls & Routing)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Backup- Protect and Access your data any time, any where on the net.
Try @Backup FREE and recieve 300 points from mypoints.com Install now:
http://click.egroups.com/1/2345/3/_/468125/_/958577128/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails