[Gllug] OT Firewire/Fast Networking

[Ian Baillie]

OK, thanks for that. Out of interest, does an external IDE drive with a
Firewire connection give greater transfer speeds than an IDE drive
plugged straight into the IDE controller on the motherboard (i.e. on an
x86 machine)?



Ian

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:21, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
> > > http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
> > http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
> http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug



-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug