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> The SCSI drives and controllers seemed to get much better throughput with lower CPU utilization, which pays dividends to how the overall system performs. Ind
by nineteen999 6y ago
> The SCSI drives and controllers seemed to get much better throughput with lower CPU utilization, which pays dividends to how the overall system performs.
Indeed - my employer at the time acquired 10 AlphaPC 164SX motherboards with 21164PC CPU's and after adding a nice amount of RAM and a nice fast Ultra2 SCSI drive they felt really fast. I remember running the early GNOME 1.0 desktop on it and it was just so responsive.