07-28-01, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: California
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Re: Re: Re: Maya :p
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The hard disks are mostly SCSI, but with ATA100 now, I think one can make do with goodly speed.
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ATA100 is in NO way comparable to SCSI in ANY way...
The SCSI interface is independent, it does not use CPU power to perform read/write operations... The ATA interface (no matter what speed) always requires CPU power to perform it's read/write/seek tasks... And now you are considering serial ATA, well, it is still second to SCSI as it still uses the CPU power to perfom the seek, read, write operations...
For a heavy workstation, ATA100 is not the worst solution, but it is not even considerable...
SCSI is so superior to ATA, i cannot even begin to compare it, and if you consider RAID... well, forget it, ATA is the BIG looser in that config...
They used Maya and Softimage along with a lot of other programs, they did not use ATA (LOL) they used the high end disk clusters...
Patrick
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