Re: Drives

["Casey Boone" <bn21stu@semovm.semo.edu>]

as an append...

there is a good message board on arstechnica.. ill post a query about this
there and see what they say

casey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <mark@bish.net>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: SILUG: Drives


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> One question on those promise cards - does the system see the drive as
> /dev/hda?
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Mark Bishop  (mark@bish.net)         |             Computer Engineer |
> | 813.258.2390                         |             Network Engineer  |
> | http://bish.net                      |          Embedded Programmer  |
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> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Casey Boone wrote:
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> > although not exactly an answer for you i have to say that the promise
ata100
> > controller cards are really really quick
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> > cost wise i would go with a promise and some 7200rpm ide's
> >
> > casey
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark" <mark@bish.net>
> > To: "Southern Illinois Linux Users Group" <silug-discuss@silug.org>
> > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:22 AM
> > Subject: SILUG: Drives
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> > > So, with bish.net experiencing a severe drive failure I get to take
this
> > > time to evaluate the drive setup.
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> > > Right now I'm down to one 40Gig IDE drive.  I have one 1Gig SCSi
drive,
> > > but it is pretty old and I don't really want to trust it.
> > >
> > > So, I'm in the drive buying business again.  I have one PCI slot avail
for
> > > either a SCSI card or a UATA card.  What are people opinion on having
a
> > > fast SCSI drive as a system drive and using two IDE drives as
so-called
> > > data drives?
> > >
> > > I'm looking for performance here.  I've seen Steve go from a "SCSI is
the
> > > way." to "UATA is da bomb"  Now I can either go completely UATA or
have a
> > > SCSI/IDE combo.  If you have any real-world experience let me know.
> > >
> > > Choices would be:
> > > 9Gig 10,000RPM SCSI drive and either one or two 40GIG IDE drive(s)
> > >    non-UATA.
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > 2 40Gig 7200RPM 100UATA IDE drives
> > >
> > > I'm liking that 3ware card Steve but I just can't afford it right now.
I
> > > want to move out of this PII and into a new AMD.
> > >
> > >
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> > > | Mark Bishop  (mark@bish.net)         |             Computer Engineer
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> > > | 813.258.2390                         |             Network Engineer
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> > > | http://bish.net                      |          Embedded Programmer
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