Chris,
>Granted, but is there useful work to do? For most applications, the
>answer is no.
Printing, checking my mail,..... There *are* things that can be done in the background without a lot of disk usage. Or it could be off a different disk. Don't forget that attaching multiple disks is pretty easy with a SCSI system.
>Happy to hear it - I _am_ long ADPT. But I have to ask - are the
>disks otherwise equivalent, or is the SCSI drive faster (RPM, seek)?
>I want to see ADPT taking off with FC, RAID, and higher-end
>products, and moving on past SCSI.
The disks were close enough to yield a valid comparison. Terrible way to put it, but this was not a well controlled experiment since I was just sitting there and judging one to be substantially faster than the other.
I too would like to see newer and faster technologies take off. Unfortunately, there needs to be some real progress in the underlying disk technology before you will see much improvement. That's often the bottleneck on a good SCSI system. And then we run smack into the PCI bus capacity which is far from infinite. And we haven't even gotten to the generally lousy memory subsystems a lot of PCs have :-)
Oh well, I do not think we disagree all that strongly. Anyway, this thread is pretty good; I spend a lot of time on the LGND thread and it is so contentious that I'm leary of saying too much for fear of precipitating a lot of ridiculous arguments.
Cheers, Torben
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