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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hard drive and tape drive questions Date: 23 Jun 1996 16:45:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4qjsau$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qc9km$cl9@cronkite.cisco.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> wrote: > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486-100. I am thinking about > upgrading my system to a pentium system which means I need to think about > the new disk system I want. Has anyone out there done a comparison on the > same or similar systems to see what the performance differences are between > SCSI and EIDE disk systems? I am using this as a single user system, so there > are not a lot of processes running. Stick with SCSI. IDE is not slow these days, but wastes a lot of your CPU cycles. I could play Xboing while compiling on my SCSI 486/33 system fine, but it went very `snappy' on an IDE 586/166 while building a kernel over there. > I am currently using an Archive Viper tape drive on the SCSI > card to do my backups. I was considering getting on of the new > Travan drives to replace it. Are they supported under 2.1? They are not. If you can't afford a better real tape drive, stick with your Viper -- it's not much of space, but it's a rock-solid one. Nobody who's thinking about serious tape solutions would consider floppy tapes as anything closely to being reliable (not even DAT -- i've been surprised about the overall ``Yeah, me too'' echo once i've vaguely been stating here that DAT and all the other helical scan technologies aren't considered very reliable either). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)