[ale] RAID "inexpensive" disks?

Drag0n dragon at atlantacon.org
Tue Oct 1 20:39:50 EDT 2002




On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:17, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Apparently so have you!  ;)
> 
> I can't remember what DASD was. 
> 
> 
Direct Access Storage Device

	On a side note, one other issue some people overlook dealing with
IDE/SCSI comparisons is the simultanious data acces of scsi vs the
focused access of ide. With 2 scsi drives you can read from and write
too both drives in parallel maximizing your throughput(which peaks out
at about 4-5 devices if they are all all rated at the maximum rating of
the controller) as opposed to 2 IDE drives on the same chain where the
system can only read from or write to one device at a time(I have even
read documentaition to where its all IDE drives in a controller pair,
ie. a mother board has two ports for 4 drives in one controller pair,
but this may be just one manufacturer)  if you can afford SCSI devices
and the controllers, it will be well worth the extra expense.

Drag0n
CCNA, RHCE
dragon at atlantacon.org


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