Re: Hardware Recommendations Wanted

[Colin McKinnon]

At 08:46 26/10/99 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote:
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>Thanks for the advice.  My past experience indicates that 450 MHz gets the
>job done with plenty to spare.  I mainly need to know more about various
>disk subsystem options.  Used to be everyone swore by SCSI, but the present
>crop of IDE drives seem to have ingratiated themselves with many.  Also
>volume managers.  Used to be hardware controllers were the defacto default,
>but now seems like many  are opting for volume managers like Vinum,
>Veritas, etc.  I would appreciate any  feed back on these issues from those
>more experienced than I.
>
>Ciao--Ken
>http://www.y2know.org/safari/
>
>FreeBSD- Viagra for your server ;^)
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I'm not all that familiar with BSD but IMHO with Linux, there's still a
huge difference in performance between SCSI & IDE.

Colin