<jeffr at odeon.net> wrote: > > Re: #1: Question is irrelevant. It doesn't matter why Yaron needs 75 > gigs of storage space. "Because" is a perfectly valid answer. > > Re: #2: Escalade 6200 (2-port) card: $ 120 > 75GB IDE (x2): $ 412 > ----- > 75GB IDE mirror $ 532 > > 73GB SCSI (x1): $ 535 Of course, the amount of time your CPU spends waiting for the non-threaded IDE subsystem to work might be worth the money. This may be comparing apples to oranges, but I once managed to get my SCSI CD-RW to rip audio CDs (it doesn't like grip for some reason *sigh*), and the performanec impact on my system from the ripping was barely noticeable. Doing the same on my UDMA DVD-ROM drive completely tanks the system, and suddenly things take several times longer than they did before (I/O-bound operations are the worst). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Have Tardis, will travel. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010815/9236c940/attachment.pgp