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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
- Message-ID: <CARL.93Jan11182231@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 23:22:31 GMT
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- In-reply-to: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 18:31:29 GMT
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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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- I absolutely agree. The one caveat is that, should you plan to add a
- second disk to your system it is advisable to buy from the same
- manufacturer. You will almost definitely have less problems this way.
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- -Carl-
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