🚀 go-pugleaf

offhand, scsi prices have dropped dramatically.
i have managed to buy a 2 gig seagate barracuda (7200 rpm, narrow) for
only 160.  
the prices are comparable to ide.  and why limit yourself to 4
devices?  2 hard disks, a CD-R...a CD player...on an IDE system, i'm
done.  but i plan to install perhaps another hard disk and i'd sure
like to get my hands on a cd-changer (16 speed, 5 disk?  mmm .)

with scsi, you just get so many upgrade options.  many more toys for
the off-the-wall pc enthusiast.

On Thu, 11 Dec 97 13:52:34 GMT, 4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk (Michael
Salem) wrote:

>This discussion of SCSI vs EIDE/UDMA has been very interesting. The 
>conclusions seem to be:
>
>In situations where mutiple disc access requests are infrequent, the latest
>EIDE technology performs comparably to SCSI with similar hardware.
>
>With multiple simultaneous disc access requests, SCSI is faster.
>
>In other words, by and large, use EIDE (cheaper) on users' workstations, 
>SCSI (faster) on file servers handling many access requests.
>
>Which is what people running networks have been doing for the last decade 
>or so...
>
>One other point related to economics: maufacturers usually bring out their
>latest improvements in SCSI first (for the same reason books are first 
>published as expensive hardbacks), so a leading-edge SCSI drive is likely 
>to be better than the latest EIDE.
>
>So if you must have the best possible performance, regardless of price, on 
>your super-duper single-user workstation, buy the latest SCSI drive.
>
>Best wishes,
>-- 
>Michael Salem (email: use "Reply" command, or mgs at michaels.demon.co.uk)
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