SCSI drives performing poorly on Windows XP

REPORTS ON THE 2CPU forums and elsewhere suggest that SCSI systems only give very slender performance gains over IDE with Windows XP, leading some corporate users to complain that the problem lies in the operating system rather than the drives.

One IT director told the INQUIRER today: "I've just bought an expensive SCSI RAID system for my development PC at work that runs XP.

"After installing it, I noticed only a modest performance improvement over the previous IDE system after spending £1500."

After reading this thread on 2CPU, he said: "Compared to W2K (Windows 2000), the same hardware runs slower by a factor of two or three".

There is more discussion on this topic in the Storage Review forums - see this thread. µ