[rescue] Netapp

[Gregory Leblanc]

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