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Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ricky Beam wrote:
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> IDE is just fine for toys.  It's a serious pain in the ass for any serious
> work.

my goodness; it's been so long since l-k saw this traditional sport!
nothing much has changed in the intrim: SCSI still costs 2-3x as much,
and still offers the same, ever-more-niche set of advantages 
(decent hotswap, somewhat higher reliability, moderately higher performance,
easier expansion to more disks and/or other devices.)

> It takes expensive hardware RAID cards to make IDE tolerable. (and
> I'm not talking about the 30$ PoS HPT crap.)

besides having missed the last 2-3 generations of ATA (which include
things like diskconnect), you have clearly not noticed that entry-level
hardware with PoS UDMA100 controllers can sustain more bandwidth than
you can hope to consume (120 MB/s is pretty easy, even on 32x33 PCI!)

> PS: I once turned down a 360MHz Ultra10 in favor of a 167MHz Ultra1 because
>     of the absolutely shitty IDE performance.  The U1 was actually faster
>     at compiling software. (Solaris 2.6, btw)

yeah, if Sun can't make IDE scream, then no one can eh?

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