Subject: [linux-audio-dev] interesting comments on scsi/ide disks
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 17:44:31 EEST
I thought this might be of interest to some others here:
"Timothy A. Seufert" <tas_AT_appsig.com> writes:
>Sustained transfer rate is like many other peak rates: it doesn't mean
>as much as people think it does. Random access performance is usually
>more important. And right now, the way the HD market works is that SCSI
>drives are optimized for random access performance, while IDE drives are
>optimized for space per dollar (which has the side effect of tending to
>increase transfer rate). In fact, most 10K RPM SCSI disks sacrifice
>some transfer rate to get better random access; they have smaller
>diameter platters, which eliminates the part of the disk where you get
>the best transfer rate, but also reduces seek times.
--p
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