🚀 go-pugleaf

Ron Reaugh wrote:
> 
> Jason <jneus@prodigy.net> wrote in article
> <34824337.CAA79322@prodigy.net>...
> >
> >
> > jake@binghamton wrote:
> >
> > > The physical limit for transfer rate of today's HD is about
> > > 15mb/sec. No HD can sustain a rate higher than that.
> > > 33MB/sec of UDMA and 40MB/sec of UWSCSI are theoretical limits.
> > > Do your home work and don't brag your scsi here.
> > > It's a waste of money if not used as multitasking server.

Actually Jake, the minute you start multitasking across more than 2
devices it isn't a waste of money.



> > Are we a little hostile?    I don't have a degree in computer
> > science, but let me share what my impressions about SCSI are.  I
> > will agree that most drives (EIDE vs. SCSI) are fairly equal in
> > real world performance.  However, I was under the impression that
> > since SCSI interfaces only use a fraction of the CPU cycles that
> > IDE interfaces use, SCSI devices are preferable when doing
> > CPU intensive operations, as the controller handles most of the work
> > without the CPU's help.


Excellent synopsis of the beauty of Busmastering controllers of
any type :-)

 
> Busmastering EIDE levels that playing field.

Ron,

You keep making these claims about how great EIDE is.  Would you
mind pointing us towards some benchmarks which validate your
claims?  As it is, you're statements are just words on the screen
with no backup to establish validity to them.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ron Reaugh

-- 
I've munged my address to help foil those
insiduous spammer-type persons.  Remove the
_s to get my real address.

jkotches@_pobox_.com