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- From: mjh@cs.vu.nl (Huisjes MJ)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: SCSI vs fast SCSI
- Message-ID: <15847@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 16:46:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.184852.22602@sherpa.uucp>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
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- rac@sherpa.uucp (Roger Cornelius) writes:
-
- } I posted this to comp.periphs.scsi and received zero replies, so
- } now I'm trying here.
-
-
- } In the case of hard disk drives, does fast SCSI provide a significant
- } performance increase over plain SCSI? One controller vendor suggested
- } that fast SCSI pushes the envelope and is more succeptible to failure
- } and for our purposes will provide no benefit. Their controller
- } supports fast SCSI, but they claim plain SCSI will perform just as
- } well for our application (Unix server with disk attached to intelligent
- } caching controller).
-
- } Can anyone comment?
-
- I am no expert but as far as I understand it, the difference between
- normal and fast SCSI is that with normal SCSI the maximum transfer rate
- on the SCSI bus is 5 MB/sec and with fast SCSI this is 10 MB/sec. The
- problem is that the actual speed of your SCSI i/o is determined by
- three things :
-
- 1. The speed of your hard disk
- 2. The speed of the SCSI bus
- 3. The speed of your system bus
-
- Specially the first is the bottleneck of the system. I don't know if
- there are any disk with a transfer rate as high as 10 MB/sec. The
- advantage of having a SCSI bus with such a high bus speed is that it
- will speed up a system when there is more as one SCSI device attached
- to the system. The SCSI controller can send simultaneous commands to
- several devices and receive there data without running out of bandwidth.
-
- Anyway this how it was explained to me.
-
- } Thanks.
- } --
- } Roger Cornelius rac@sherpa.UUCP ...!uunet!sherpa!rac
-
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