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IDE, SCSI And Recording Everything

Posted by timothy on from the snobbery-reverse-snobbery-and-reality dept.

Raju writes: "For many years we were told that SCSI is superior to IDE. I always made my systems with SCSI and the others in the household got el-cheapo IDE disks. In the past SCSI beat IDE hands-down but now according to Simson Garfinkel, "today's IDE drives are significantly faster than SCSI drives". In the article at O'Reilly Network he talks about the tests they had run for storage of network data on disks. In the light of this article does anyone see any reason for going with SCSI in a desktop machine? For servers with heavy disk usage patterns it might be different due to command queuing." Disk types aren't what the article's really about, though -- it's a top-level look at network forensics (including advice on building a traffic-analysis system), and makes some interesting points about the unbalanced growth of storage and bandwidth.

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  1. yep, I know this one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    according to Simson Garfinkel

    God Bless you please, Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you will know, whoa, whoa, whoa.

    1. Re:yep, I know this one... by SirRichardPumpaloaf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Art Garfunkel - dead or Canadian?

  2. Won't help me. by Anti-Microsoft+Troll · · Score: 1, Funny

    It doesn't matter how fast they make hard drives. It still won't make Windows XP boot in a reasonable amount of time.

  3. I like the metal on metal sound of SCSI! by ezfur · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is nothing like the metal on metal sound of a high quality SCSI drive. Also you cant find an IDE drive to make the high pitch whine like the 10,000rpm Cheetah. The IDE drives make weak plastic sounds, or almost make no sound at all.

    1. Re:I like the metal on metal sound of SCSI! by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      The IDE drives make weak plastic sounds, or almost make no sound at all.

      Give the Western Digital ATA-100 drives a shot. They sound like stones mixed with sand being ground together.

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  4. Re:The age-old debate... by John_Booty · · Score: 4, Funny

    A two-drive array will nearly double your throughput, and with quality controllers, it's fairly linear up through three to five drives - again, depending on the quality of the controller

    A two-drive array can double your throughput, but halve your reliability since if one of the drives fails, you lose all your data ;-)

    that sort of RAID is neat but it's just inviting disaster. you need to move to the higher levels of RAID which involve more drives and offer parity as well as striping!

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  5. How appropriate... by slipgun · · Score: 5, Funny

    according to Simson Garfinkel

    Hello SCSI my old friend
    It's getting very near the end

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  6. Simon & Garfunkel Reunited!! by ScoLgo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Talk about scuzzy! What is it with all these old rock/folk has-beens making comebacks lately, anyway?

    What? Simson Garfinkel? Who the hell is that? I thought it said... oh hell, never mind...

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  7. Re:use the best technology for the job! by Gutboy_Barrelhouse · · Score: 1, Funny
    > Novell Netware is technically superior to Windows NT.
    Really? Because I have to use NN at work, and it basically sucks...

    Oh, I see.