Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

From: Karsten M. Self (kmself_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) wrote:
    > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
    > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
    > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
    > > > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to
    > > > > decide.
    > > >
    > > > Which is why I restricted my comments to PCs only. With a single user PC,
    > > > it is extremely unlikely to make a significant difference
    > >
    > > Until you add that second hard drive.
    >
    > Of course with a 200 or 250 Gig IDE hard disk, you're much less likely
    > to need to do that :)

    Spoken like someone who's failed to grasp the concept of multiple
    simultaneous IOs.

    Ever watch your system freeze for a quarter minute while swapping a
    large process in or out?

    Peace. 

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