<jeffr at odeon.net> wrote:
> 
> Re: #1: Question is irrelevant.  It doesn't matter why Yaron needs 75
> gigs of storage space.  "Because" is a perfectly valid answer.
> 
> Re: #2: Escalade 6200 (2-port) card:	$ 120
> 	75GB IDE (x2):			$ 412
> 					-----
> 	75GB IDE mirror			$ 532
> 
> 	73GB SCSI (x1):			$ 535

Of course, the amount of time your CPU spends waiting for the non-threaded
IDE subsystem to work might be worth the money.

This may be comparing apples to oranges, but I once managed to get my SCSI
CD-RW to rip audio CDs (it doesn't like grip for some reason *sigh*), and
the performanec impact on my system from the ripping was barely
noticeable.  Doing the same on my UDMA DVD-ROM drive completely tanks the
system, and suddenly things take several times longer than they did before
(I/O-bound operations are the worst).

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