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Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]

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From: derek / nul
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 05:28
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:16:58 +1000, "Cristian Croitoru" <c_croitoru@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Speaking of speed and not being particularly familiar with the SCSI
>protocol, my common sense tells me that having a stripe on a IDE
>multichannel controller can push the speed quite some way..
>Again my common sense tells me that a SCSI controller can not stream data
>from more than one drive at a time, as only one drive can put data on the
>bus at the same time

Your common sense failed this time.
With a SCSI ALL disks can read or write at the same time.
That is one of the strengths of scsi

Of course, at home you will have trouble using this strength.
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From: derek / nul <abuseonly@sgrail.org>
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Subject: Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:28:51 +1100
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