[rescue] Netapp

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Well, I'll be happy to stand corrected.  After all, it was a sily PC mag
that said that.

One thing I noticed is that my 8x drive can't play movies for shit because
it is too slow at authenticating disks.  I hated it so much that I just
went and bought an Apex DVD player.  No more mucking with PCs to do that.


--
Joshua Boyd

On 3 Jul 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On 03 Jul 2001 19:56:58 -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Actually, I heard some where (but for the life of me, can't remeber
> > where), that IDE was actually better with DVD drives.  I read that it had
> > something to do with variable packet sizes, and IDE handling them better
> > than SCSI did.  Don't know if there is any truth to that.  But, that might
> > be why we don't see SGIs with DVD drives.
> 
> I really don't buy that.  The benchmarks that I've read show a 6x SCSI
> DVD drive destroying the 12x IDE DVD drive for throughput.  Clearly the
> 12x has better seek times, but that's a factor of the rotational speed
> more than anything else.  
> 	Greg
> 
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