Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

From: Johann Koenig (explosive_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    On Wednesday December 31 at 01:54pm
    "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

    > 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?

    Nope :-D

    Thats what 768mb of RAM on a system thats only used as a desktop will
    get you. I run email, web, gcc compiles, and a bunch of other random
    programs on this computer, but leave a separate computer (200mhz AMD
    with 7 scsi drives) to do stuff like imap, http, https, webmail, ftp,
    mysql, php etc. 

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