Re: PCI/Pentium SCSI Motherboards

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From: Patrick Hall
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:22

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Jim McGrady (jimm@fcs.wa.gov.au) wrote:
: In article <DLLHs5.7v1@netzservice.de>, ut@netzservice.de says...
: >
: =>In <31013DCD.1901@primenet.com> prefix <prefix@primenet.com> writes:
: =>>The new FAST ATA-2 IDE hard drives in Mode 4 can out perform some SCSI 
: =>>hard drives.
: =>_some_
: =>
: =>You could simply buy SCSI drives which are as fast as or faster than any
: =>IDE drive. The difference in price is not the big issue anymore.
: =>A really fast drive _isn't_ cheap - if it's SCSI or IDE.

: Can you please make some recommendations ?

	Quantum Atlas II and\or the Grand Prix II - I'm not sure if there's
any difference beyond the interface.  IBM Ultrastar (XP?).  The Seagate
Barracuda's have had some firmware problems in the past, and I'm not
sure if they're over their teething problems yet.

						Patrick Hall
						phall@umr.edu

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Subject: Re: PCI/Pentium SCSI Motherboards
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