[oclug] Need advice on server specs

[Matt Larose]

Why SCSI ? becuse I dont like the large hit on the CPU when you're doing
alot of reading/writing.

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andrew Hutton wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Matt Larose wrote:
> > I'm not going to comment on what distro to use, because I always suggest
> > to use the one that you're familiar with. But for hardware what I would
> > suggest is an AMD Duron/Athlon with a Abit KT7-Raid and two or three Fast
> > IDE drives.  Or if he's looking for more performance go with scsi and
> 
> Why go with SCSI?  It's simply expensive and slow if you don't NEED the
> shared-media aspects.
> 
> The idea that SCSI is better/faster than IDE is *FALSE*, on the right
> hardware IDE far outscales SCSI up to about 500G.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew J. Hutton, 
> Ottawa Linux Symposium, International Linux Developers Conference
> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/    July 25th-28th, 2001
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