On 22 Dec 97 02:59am, Mike Bilow wrote to George Fliger:
 MB> George Fliger wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> Nothing bad will happen except that the server will be slower
 MB> with IDE.
 GF> Absolutely correct.  Thank you for extending my original
 GF> thought.  I personally don't give my clients the option to
 GF> use IDE in their servers. Every client in the past that I
 GF> gave that option to, before changing my personal policy,
 GF> complained loudly when their server's performance wasn't
 GF> what they expected -- even though I explained this in
 GF> detail! Their response, "Why didn't you try harder to talk
 GF> me out of it?"  You just can't win sometimes. 
 MB> We never had that problem.  Anyone who cared about the cost
 MB> difference between IDE and SCSI couldn't afford us. :-)  Even
 MB> in the old days, we used to use ESDI drives in NetWare file
 MB> servers for the speed.  My PC networking days go back to truly
 MB> ancient kludges such as the Corvus Omninet -- remember those?
My God!  Somebody actually remembers those???  I thought I was the only
one who dealt with that misfortune. 
 GF> You should have seen those older clients REALLY scream when
 GF> they insisted on adding a SECOND IDE drive to the server!
 GF> You KNOW what kind of a performance hit they took then.
 MB> Yes, that's a clear mistake to do.
You probably pre-date me networking wise (no shot at your age, really!).
I can remember the first Netware system I installed back in 1986.  IBM
PC XT's and AT's (35 workstations total) with 2.5 Megs expanded memory,
Token Ring NICs and QuarterDeck's DesqView for a front-end.  The server
was an AT (6Mhz) with two Seagate 4096 80Meg MFM drives.  The whole bundle
(including the programmer time) cost the company around $250,000 to imple-
ment.  And to think, all they had for the entire company was a bit less
than 160Megs total server space.  They never thought they'd run out. :)
George
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