Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:59:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:58:55 -0500 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:32669 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:58:39 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow? Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Lines: 34 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1010231917 27731 212.34.181.4 (5 Jan 2002 11:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:58:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Warning: This article could contain indecent words in German and/or English. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If you don't want to read such words, please use a Killfile. X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2002 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Dana Lacoste writes: >Also the bandwidth differences : >Firewire (Generation 1, what you can get now) is 400Mbit/s >FC Gen 1 is 100MByte/s >Gen 2 is 200MByte/s >(OK, I know those last two numbers are right, but I don't >know what the NAMES of the standards are :) >Firewire isn't even supposed to be in the same league! :) That wasn't supposed of IDE in the war against SCSI either, but look where we're now. :-) The one argument that noone brought around here is (and it is the killer argument for me in IDE vs. SCSI): "external disk trays". Try that with IDE (current IDE please. No SerialATA. ;-) ) without lots of "out of spec" cables dangling out of your "enterprise computing solution". If you need more than say, three or four disks, your solution is SCSI. Or FibreChannel. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/