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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI (was Re: Linux vs BSD) Date: 25 Jan 1997 23:24:33 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5cema1$e9a@panix2.panix.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cblts$emh@junkie.gnofn.org> <01bc0a7a$4d9c2d60$d69f389d@v-jurgex-main> <5cekfd$3c6@junkie.gnofn.org> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154211 comp.os.linux.setup:93894 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5735 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2030 In article <5cekfd$3c6@junkie.gnofn.org>, Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> wrote: >In article <01bc0a7a$4d9c2d60$d69f389d@v-jurgex-main>, >Jurgen Exner <v-jurgex@microsoft.com> wrote: >>Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> wrote in article >><5cblts$emh@junkie.gnofn.org>... >>> [...] >>> similar to SCSI drives of the same capacity. (excepting the high-end >>> 7200RPM stuff -- do they even make EIDE drives this fast? ) >> >>7200rpm isn't high-end any more. >>Seagate already produces a line of 10.000rpm HDs. > >Please don't be pedantic. It's not "highest end." It's still >faster than most people are using. I am aware of the 10,000 RPM >seagate product -- prohibitively expensive at the moment. > >Thank you for your useful post. Well, perhaps this will be useful: don't waste a whole lot of your time looking at that Seagate product; it's not significantly faster than the 7200RPM IBM drives with PRML and MR heads, since the IBM units get better density. There's more than one way to skin a cat. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/