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"Dale \"Mad_Murdock\" White" <whiteda@home.com> wrote in message news:<__6k7.51177$hT4.12683632@news1.rdc1.md.home.com>...
> I agree 100% with this in the context of the average home user.
> 
> There are several companies that does have External storage towers, the Digital BA356
> and the Compaq Universal Enclosure would be examples, of a simple way to had 7-14
> SCSI drives to a standard PC (which is what I am doing). I'm fortunate enough to work
> where we have a few spares of these and that's and so I don't have to buy the drives.
> Though if someone wanted, they can get refurbish and such off of E-bay fairly cheap.
> (at least compared to buying new)
> 
> But with 80-100 gig 7200 rpm drives out and fairly cheap, having a SCSI tower isn't
> so important. I have 6 bay tower and even with 36 gig drives that's just over 216
> gig, but for around $520 I can get (2) 100 Gig 7200 rpm drives and have pretty much
> the same storage. Now if only those 40/80 gig DLT tape units would come down in
> price.
> 
> Just my thoughts
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
> "Lane Lewis" <lanjlewis1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:8R4k7.5397$ld2.231777@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> > With advent of firewire and IDE raid, scsi on the desktop doesn't make any
> > sense unless you like lots of  Cdroms, DVDroms, CDRWs. Servers still should
> > use SCSI drives and SCSI raid for the better support and speed.
> >
> > Lane
> >
> > "Holy Smoke" <kissme@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:cNYj7.37727$Iq4.18664937@typhoon.columbus.rr.com...
> > > Can you tell me the difference between them? what is their advantage, and
> > > disadvantage?
> > > what can scsi do that ide cant? (sorry, hehe, i need more info about scsi,
> > > know enough of ide)
> > >
> > > X-Post?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

I couldn't decided eaither, between EIDE or SCSI, 
so I bought a Dell that has both built-in.

Corey