Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 05:29:03 +0000

Russell Leighton wrote:
>
> What are good rules of "thumb" for
> choosing IDE vs SCSI when building
> a Linux system?
>
> Both are fast these days...I always
> thought that IDE==cheap, but loaded
> the CPU, so you didn't want that in
> a server or high performance machine
> that might be busy with other things
> besides waiting for the current disk
> transfer...is that fair? just basically
> wrong?

Just basically wrong nowadays.

CPU load for IDE is same or less than SCSI,
I/O speeds can be the same with similar drives,
or faster with 10000rpm SCSI drives.

For a desktop machine with internal drives,
the rest is pretty much indistinguishable.

For high-end servers, or machines with external
drives, SCSI seems the way to go.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com


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