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Article #320Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]
From: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 06:27
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 06:27
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derek / nul <abuseonly@sgrail.org> wrote in message news:c4q2tv0g64nsm7foapaq463c5aheom3420@4ax.com... > 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. Nope. > With a SCSI ALL disks can read or write at the same time. Nope. You can only read or write from a single drive at one time. > That is one of the strengths of scsi Nope. > Of course, at home you will have trouble using this strength. Wrong again, particularly with RAID.
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