[lug] hard drive speeds

[Michael J. Hammel]

Question to you hardware experts:  what are the fastest hard drives
available?  Don't SCSI drives generally have faster throughput and
read/write times than IDE?

I'm working on a talk I'll be giving at ALS on the Gimp and one of the
major bottlenecks for graphic artists when using the Gimp is swapping tiles
from memory to disk and back.  My understanding is that the faster buses
being introduced in PCs these days aren't helping IDE throughput, but they 
might help SCSI subsystems using add-on cards, right?

Anyone want to take a crack at what drives are generally going to provide
the fastest throughput?
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