Ok, thanks!  

cheers

bruce

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:56:14AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:18:13PM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > bruce
> 
> My Ultra 5/333mhz with an OFW Adaptec 2940-UW running a Seagate Cheetah
> Ultra2 drive is much, much faster than an Ultra5/360mhz with IDE. I tested
> both of them with the same kernel and OS version, and noticed a pronounced
> difference in favor of the SCSI setup.
> 
> -Sean

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