[Scottish] Drive performance...

[Miah Gregory]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:52 +0000, Kyle Gordon wrote:

> I think that settles it then... SCSI it is :-) They may be old, but
> still more advanced. On the plus side, it frees up some drives for use
> in other machines :-)

I've not been paying much attention to the linux IDE support but AFAIR
SATA supports command queueing, so it wouldn't surprise me if newer PATA
disks and/or chipsets do the same.

Having said all that, I really would gently push you towards some kind
of hardware RAID solution if you can bring yourself to spending some
cash - my experience with software RAID under linux has been that
performance can be a bit patchy (seems to be luck of the draw whether it
works well or not) and recovering a degraded array can sometimes be a
bit of a ball ache.

-- 
Miah Gregory