Re: Recomended FS

On Monday 20 October 2003 10:28 am, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Peter Childs wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > > A fast HD with a good RAID controller. Subject to budget, SCSI
> > > are beter buy than IDE. So does hardware SCSI RAID.
> >
> > 	I hate asking this again. But WHY?
> >
> > 	What SCSI gain in spinning at 15000RPM and larger buffers. They
> > lose in Space, and a slower bus. I would like to see some profe.
> > Sorry.
>
> SCSI beats IDE hands down for databases, and for one reason above
> all the rest.  They don't generally lie about fsync.
>....

Talk about timing...this article posted today seems quite apropos 
(spoiler: SCSI beats IDE):

http://hardware.devchannel.org/hardwarechannel/03/10/20/1953249.shtml?tid=20&tid=38&tid=49

Cheers,
Steve