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