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- From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
- Subject: Re: SCSI & Accelerator
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 03:48:06 GMT
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- In article <9212182106.AA02658@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov>,
- oneil@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov (Don O'Neil) wrote:
- >
- > In response to the response to SCSI & Accelerator:
- >
- > >That makes an investment of about $250-$400 for a 20-52 MB of HD storage;
- > >Since the speed of data retrieval is very high, wouldn't that put the RAMDisk
- > >enterprise out of business? Who ould need a 180K, 256K, or even 1 MB RAM Disk
- > >with a 20 MB HD?
- >
- > Truely, not many people would need the ram disk any longer, they are nearly
- > equal in speed (with the SCSI possibly being a little bit faster) but SCSI can
- > be slower, if you use a older, slower drive, or faster if you use a newer
- > faster
-
- Really? I would think that a ramdisk would be faster than the scsi! Are
- you sure? I'm not being a smart ass, but I find it hard to believe that
- a device who's speed is measured in nanoseconds will be slower than one
- who's speed is measured in milliseconds - three orders of magnitude
- difference.
-
- Of course, there could be hardware bottlenecks that I'm unware of. But
- both would (should?) have to face similar bottlenecks from the PEB to a
- 99/4a or Geneve.
-
- FWIW, I'm an old Ti'er, but I got tired of Myache's problems and converted
- over to Macintosh. SCSI is most definitely the way to go.
-
- Which gives me a thought - any plans to support SCSI-2? That *would* be
- overkill, tho. :)
-
- James - I unloaded the Ti stuff awhile back
-