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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:31:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.200509.3989@netcom.com> moses@netcom.com (Alex Jauch) writes:
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- >So if speed is your concern, I'd say SCSI is your answer.
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- The corollary to this, of course, is that if money is a problem,
- IDE is your answer.
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- The way I look at it is that if you want lots of drives, super large
- drives and very fast transfer rates SCSI is the answer, but you'll
- need lots of moolah for it.
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- If you need a 80-300 meg hard drive for a one-user clone, IDE is a
- perfectly good choice. Transfer rates, while not as fast as _potential_
- Wide-and/or-Fast SCSI-II rates, are high enough. Couple an IDE drive
- to a local bus controller and it can actually scream, though admittedly
- not as hard as what you'd get with good SCSI.
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- In the same price range you'll be stuck with a cheap ISA pseudo-SCSI
- adapter card.
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