Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:33:19PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high
> > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective.
>
> You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and
> suffered from really bad performance with the on-board Ultra66 controller. I
> installed a PCI controller (Promise Ultra 66) and put every drive on its own
> channel. Things are much happier now and about 3x faster. The best part is
> that the card only costs about $25.
Yep, but the problem there is figuring out how to get each channel on a unique
IRQ. With some BIOSes, it's just not possible.
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