[K12OSN] <OT> drives - technical was: Just got approval
Steve Wright
paua at quicksilver.net.nz
Wed Mar 3 14:48:03 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 03:34, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > Not only that I've seen some results that support that SCSI drives simply
> > are built to last longer. [....]
>
> That was probably the case a few years ago, but now I think
> nearly all manufacturers take exactly the same mechanical
> parts and slap on a different logic board. There is still
> the bottleneck with head position and since IDE is cheaper
> you'll probably buy bigger drives that make this even worse.
Somehow, I thought the opposite was the case - larger drives means
greater data density means quicker head positioning (drive has to move
head zz degrees - actually spans more data on a larger drive.)
> Anyway, for most multiuser purposes you should max out
> the RAM before considering spending more on the disk
> controller and drives.
Les speaks the truth. ;-)
/sw
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