Fred K Ollinger on Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:50:08 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] scsi vs ide


> SCSI is hands down MUCH faster. For instance, I could play quake3 while
> burning cd's or compiling a kernel without issues (everything was scsi,
> and the hd was a 10k rpm cheetah). However, I'm unable to justify the
> cost vs space. I have found that while performance is nowhere near that
> of a scsi system, by tuning the HD parameters with hdparm I can achieve
> a reasonably usable system. IE, mp3's no longer skip while I build

What about booting off scsi, running swap and maybe mp3's off scsi, and
putting /home and /usr/local on ide? /var goes on scsi, I think, too.

Fred

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