[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

Ian Baillie ian.baillie at westminster.org.uk
Mon Dec 9 16:25:58 UTC 2002


Which is the faster, Firewire or SCSI?  And what are the advantages of
each?


On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:13, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > Thanks...  Unfortunately we are currently using OS 9 clients, although
> > we do have there home directories centrally mounting on an OSX server
> > (using MacAdmin).  I don't think this is quick enough for video editing
> > though, eventhough we have a 10/100 ethernet network, we will be having
> > upto 23 children accessing the server at the same time (which has an IDE
> > drive).
> 
> gbit networks are becoming quite cheap nowadays
> 
> upgrade the network to a gbit network and get some scsi drives
> 
> the ide drive WILL be the bottleneck if 23 kids try to access it at the same
> time, trying to edit big video files (me thinks)
> 
> my 2p
> 
> / d
> 
> 
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