Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> I'll second the idea that random ide disks work just fine, at least
> as slaves.
> 
> People keep pushing SCSI disks in Ultra 5 and 10s, but, are they
> really faster?  My ultra 10 with some random (and I do mean random)
> cheap ide disk is faster doing disk i/o then almost anything else I
> have at home and competitive with the faster (cpu wise) ultra 2 with
> very fast scsi disks.  Would it be all that much faster if I had 
> scsi disks then?

There's a good balance to be struck between the performance of SCSI and 
the price of IDE by buying a cheap ATA100 or ATA133 PCI card and popping 
it in the U10. Boot off whatever little IDE disk comes to hand from the 
onboard interface then put all your access-time sensitive data on big 
(relatively)fast IDE disk on the PCI controller. My Ultra10 currently 
boots off the 9GB IDE that came with it originally, this disk onyl has 
/, /boot and /var on it, everything else is then mounted from a 120GB 
disk hanging off a 20UKP Promise IDE controller.

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