Subject: Re: SCSI vs. IDE
To: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/30/2001 01:16:08
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:09:07AM +0200, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> > It is, in fact, no longer any faster.  Ultra-3 SCSI was an attempt to
> > pull ahead of ATA again in raw interface speed, which was readily
> > trumped by ATA-100.  In practice, both interfaces are now faster than
> > any HDA being manufactured, and the interface speed is just kind of
> > silly.
> 
> unless you put 10 drives on one SCSI-3 bus. 

Sure.  And for half the price, I can put twice as much IDE storage on
the same machine, even if I have to add some plugin IDE controllers.
And for many applications, it will be faster.