On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:03:48PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> >
> > $--- 128M PC133 RAM
> > $150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller)
> > $297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop)
> > $63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios)
> > $132 4.5G 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah
> > or
> > $97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15G (DTLA)
> >
> > The question is, whats the real speed difference between a IBM 75GX
> > (http://www.tweakmax.com/html/ibm75gxp/ibm-1.cfm) and ye old 10000RPM
> > Cheetahs in FreeBSD? Id imagine the Cheetah is faster for compiles, but
> > is the difference small enough that Id be better off spending the $100 I
> > save on ATA100 and spend it on another 128M of RAM. I would of course be
> > using the drive as one drive per channel w/ softupdates, noatime.
> >
> > Any advice, bonnie stats, or make world times would be appreciated.
>
> Hmm, I have an Abit KA7-100 (thanks to Trent George!) here with
> IBM 75GXP drives on it (btw the KA7-100 is a VERY nice board)
Right, I second that one. KA7 works just fine for me. And it has a
useful (to me) ISA slot instead of a worthles win-modem slot (forgot the
abbrev). I don't have the KA7-100, don't use any ATA stuff here, only SCSI.
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