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Subject: Re: Ultimate Computer for chess

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 09:03:53 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 09:55:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>HardDrive: 4 GB IDE(ATA-100)#1 inch 7.2 RPM Precision Workstation 530
>
>If you use egtb's, I _hate_ EIDE drives.  They are slow as christmas compared
>to good SCSI drives.  Particularly ultra-320 15000RPM scsi drives.  When you
>get an IDE disk busy, the entire machine runs dog slow.  WIth SCSI, this
>doesn't happen at all..

This is generally true, but with modern EIDE the gap is really not that big,
unless you get a monster like a fiber-channel suited for an Oracle server.

Does anybody have figures for a standard SCSI vs ATA-100 in terms of TB scan?

regards
Franz




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