[rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH IDEHARDWARE RAID

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 19:59:46 (-0500), Phil Schilling wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Apple Announces Rackmount Server - WITH   IDEHARDWARE RAID
>
> This thread per ide vs scsi is inane.

Yes, but not for the reasons you seem to think....

> IDE - cheap single threaded workstation use only
> SCSI - expensive multi-threaded high bandwith

You're obviously confusing IDE with multiple drives vs. IDE with one
drive per channel and each channel backed onto a 533 MB/s PCI bus.

> If you have a 100 animals that you need to move to another pen do you want to
> funnel them through 1 gate or would it be more efficient and faster to funnel
> them through many gates.

In this case Apple have built one gate per animal.  What's your problem!?!?!?

> 23 years of this profession and have never installed or maintained a IDE based
> server and have no intention of ever doing so.

Too bad, so sad -- you'll miss out on what's clearly the best
T.C.O. deal available on the market today.

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