Hey Tex, thanks for popping in, always a pleasure to share a thread with ya.

All these SCSI bench results are making me depressed. There was me quite happy with my little old pair of basic PATA WD1200JB's, looking forward to my next upgrade, which will probably consist of a couple of SATA Raptors, and then you guys come long with scores getting on for double of what I can ever hope to get.

My bro had a straight up SCSI system (1 independant drive, running on a pretty standard controller), one of the old cheetah drives I think. The system they were in was brand new, he had just picked up a new PII 333. Almost the fastest desktop chip available at the time, and I still remember to this day, how fast that machine ran. It proved to me that, it doesn't matter what CPU you're packing, or what speed your system bus is running, if you've got a slow disk interface, then it all means nothing.

SCSI is obviously still the way to go for the best access times, but it's just so bloody expensive, especially when you want large capacity disks.

I envy those scores guys, I envy that you have the ability to be that close to a machine which packs so much pace. But I can honestly say, SCSI's price, is way too high for me. That's just thinking about the drives themselves, the high quality controllers you can get for them doesn't even bare thinking about.

Now stop showing off people, you're distressing your Uncle Spinner.