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SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World

Posted by timothy on Monday October 20, 2003 @10:51AM from the safe-to-go-back-in-the-water dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gerard Beekmans has a really good comparison of the speeds of IDE and SCSI drives up over on devchannel.org. Should help put an end to the myth of IDE erasing SCSI's speed advantage." Note that Beekmans' test handicaps the SCSI disk a bit, with interesting results. (DevChannel, like Slashdot, is part of OSDN.)

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Meaningless.. by grub · 2003-10-20 10:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

a really good comparison of the speeds of IDE and SCSI drives

Oh please. With all due respect to the submitter and Mr. Beekmans, this "comparison" ignores all sorts of other factors: write caching, command overlap, rotational speeds, et al ad nauseum. Yes, some of these are mentioned but a comparison such as this should have hard numbers in a table not opinions. Not that I'm suprised or upset that SCSI trounces IDE, but his comparison is virtually meaningless.

There are many benchmarking suites out there, I'd suggest these be used for the next test to provide some meaningful results.

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