[geeks] Public Apology

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:08:00PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> IDE blows dog. YOU may be happy with slow disk I/O but I am not. My old

Ahem.  IDE is used in numerous fast disk subsystems[1].  For $5k, I
can buy a 320gb array that can sustain 130megs/sec and offers hotswap
reliability via raid3[2].  For $7.9k, I can bump that up to 260megs/sec
sustained.  And you don't need any fancy video controllers either.

I still refuse to buy such an item on the principle that it uses IDE,
and besides I don't have $5k to spare.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

[1] Fast here refers to high sustained bandwidth, not to latency since
the reviews tend to ignore that.

[2] See review of such devices here: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:UqQqjgvGwssC:www.postindustry.com/article/mainv/0,7220,35297,00.html+IDE+raid+medea&hl=en&ie=UTF-8