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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3355)11/2/1998 12:11:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
>>like oil and water.

Of course I'm not reading the author's story, but my guess
is he has a logic chain somewhat like the following:

o NT is for servers

o Servers have many simultaneous users

o Many users use disks randomly and unpredictably

o Memory is so expensive one can't afford to allocate
much of it to disk cache

o Therefore fast disks and multithreaded pipelines
for many concurrent disk operations are necessary
on NT machines.

I think virtually none of this applies in our
case ("our" meaning most readers of this thread), and some of
it is just plain out of date. Of course I made it up <g>,
so the author perhaps has more applicable reasons. If so I'd
like to know what they are.

NT is no more antipathetic to IDE than other Windows
OSs (is antipathetic a word? Should be if it isn't).

Once in a long while I have several very active disk
operations going simlutaneously and get some disk
interference, provided I've used up all my memory
disk cache. In these isolated instances, I would
probably get less interference from SCSI disks. But
unless I spent a fortune on them (AND the controller,
AND the cables --sheesh, the price of SCSI cables!),
the disks themselves would probably be slower than
DMA IDE disks with the proper mb and drivers. Faster
disks and memory cache make up for a lot of multithreaded
overlap. Need plenty of memory, though.

Spots
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