Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:38:34 -0500

The answer would differ depending on your drive-controller combination for
both SCSI and EIDE. BTW using bus mastering EIDE you eliminate the CPU
hogging and on a single (or low) user system you probably wouldn't even
notice the difference.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Leighton <leighton@mail.imake.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>;
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 11:42 PM
Subject: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?

>What are good rules of "thumb" for
>choosing IDE vs SCSI when building
>a Linux system?
>
>Both are fast these days...I always
>thought that IDE==cheap, but loaded
>the CPU, so you didn't want that in
>a server or high performance machine
>that might be busy with other things
>besides waiting for the current disk
>transfer...is that fair? just basically
>wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
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