this is not the only benefit. On electricity failure scsi disks write the flash before shut donw whil ide not.
So if your going to use a DB like postgres and its a critical mission machine go for SCSI. -------------------------- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oron Peled" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Igor Zhidkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 8:48 AM Subject: Re: Powerful and Stable PC Configuration for Linux] > On Sunday 15 February 2004 05:48, Igor Zhidkov wrote: > > HDD: WD 120GB/7200/8MB CACHE > > If your apps read large data sets, than going SCSI would help you a lot > both in performance and in lowering CPU load for other tasks. > If your jobs are pure compute, than IDE (7200 RPM) should be OK. > > -- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > __ > / / (_)__ __ ____ __ > / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a > /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]