Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting article on SCSI vs. IDE
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 22:10:30 EET
>http://www.prorec.com has a nice article (dated September 2000) that
>compares SCSI and IDE for DAW purposes. I thought with all the recent
A major (or perhaps not so major) problem with their analysis:
They write:
>From the point of view of interface speed only, it's a wash! Remember,
>in a DAW, you are interested in getting the highest throughput from
>one drive - period! You don't care if you can get high burst
>throughput from six SCSI drives all at once because that's not how
>you're going to be using it. Keep your eye on the ball. Sustained
>throughput is what need to be looking at.
I can easily guess why this might be true under Windows, although it may not
be. It ain't so under Linux, with both LVM and RAID support present
and very functional. I wrote and told them the same thing, more or less.
--p
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