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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with setting up.... Date: 6 Nov 1995 09:18:44 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <47kjtk$57q@times.tfs.com> References: <DHH185.KFs@network.com> <47jbpo$ldt@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <47jbpo$ldt@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Jeff Henning <jeh@chainsaw.network.com> wrote: > >>I am currently in the process of buying a tower PC but I am >>faced with the decision of going with SCSI or IDE type disks. > I recently saw a case mentionned where the IO load needed to bring a machien to 100% cpu use under IDE, produced only 20% CPU load with a smart SCSI controller.. can't remember the specifics, but it's typical of what I know about it.. EIDE will be better when they get the bugs ironed out. but why bother? once you've got your SCSI adapter you'll find youself eyeing all thos SCSI devices a the local Swap-meet.. need backup? add a scsi tape, etc.