more changes to disk stuff. no drives run at 160MB, but the bus does

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Your drive system is one of the places where bottlenecks can
occur. All of your database information, boot code, swap
space, and user programs live on the hard drives. Hard drives
are speeding up, now topping 15,000 RPM and rates
are speeding up, now topping 15,000 RPM and bus rates
of over 160MB per second. Even at these speeds, drives are still
much slower than RAM or your CPU, with requests to drives waiting
for the drive to spin to the right location, read and/or write
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bound waiting for the drive. Other devices on the SCSI bus
can communicate during this time. Another advantage to SCSI
is that you can have multiple SCSI controllers on the
same bus. This leads into failover, which we will cover later
in this chapter.
same bus. This allows two or more machines to access a single
SCSI bus and drives that are on that bus.
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The increased performance of SCSI and low quantity of
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very low cost for most single user systems while retaining
some of the higher performance of SCSI. But many of the
features of SCSI are not available in IDE: external boxes,
hot swapping,
and devices like scanners. In addition, when an IDE drive
is asked to do something, that IDE bus is locked while
the drive processes the request. IDE devices are usually limited