[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Daniel Andersson]

well, the actual disk is either SCSI or IDE
firewire is just the way you access the disk

so the firewire harddrives are normal IDE/SCSI-drives with a firewire
connection

SCSI is much better under load
quicker seek time
uses no CPU power

(or am i totally wrong here?)

/ d

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Baillie" <ian.baillie at westminster.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking


> 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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