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

Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB (leonardz@rvib2.rvib.org.au)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:18:53 +1000 (AEST)

IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard
disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI.

Regards.

Leonard

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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Russell Leighton wrote:

> 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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