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- From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SCSI vs IDE speed difference
- Date: 26 Jul 1992 23:57:16 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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- Various messages on comp.os.linux seem to indicate that it's faster to have
- a SCSI disk than an IDE.
-
- Yet, in the second-most-recent PC magazine, IDE drives come out best, unless
- you have a caching controller on an EISA bus. They state that the faster
- transfer speed of SCSI is not a factor, since the transfer speed is limited
- anyway by how fast the disk spins. Their benchmarks were for DOS, but it
- seems to me that their comment would apply to Linux, too.
-
- So, since I am currently shopping for a system to run Linux on, which should
- I get? Specific benchmarks, if available, would be appreciated.
-
- --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
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