On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > ignorant on the exact device details. You wouldn't happen to have the
> > skinny of those things would ya? They still being made?
>
> I wish, especially if they are the same price as regular IDE disks and the
> Linux kernel supports them!
>
> > Your comments really serve to enforce that IDE stinks and stresses that
> > IDE should not be used where serious database performance is needed.
> > Needless to say, I think we all already understood that. ;)
>
> Even more so, it shows the difference between server-clas computer
> components and consumer-class computer components. It's sometimes wearing
> on the mind to get the finance guy at my company to understand why a
> server with the same "specs" (using the term loosely) as a desktop machine
> costs thousands more. After long discussions extolling the virtues of ECC
> RAM, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, SCSI hard disks, RAID-1, and
> cooling requirements, I can sometimes convince him that there is a real
> reason for the price difference.
>
So what about Serial ATA that new standard, does that improve
things when it finally come into use?
Peter Childs
