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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:05:46 -0700
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From: Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Duo2400] Re: No Subject
At 4:14 PM -0400 10/24/00, Eric L. Strobel wrote:
>on 10/24/00 4:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>
>> In a message dated 10/24/00 3:33:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>>> This raises a question for me. In 2.5" hard drives of the 2300 vintage,
>>> aren't you better off with a SCSI than an IDE (of the same size) because
>>> of
>>> the SCSI being faster than the IDE?
>>
>> Hmmmmm....bus limitations being what they are, doubt you'd see much
>> difference, and the faster EIDE drives should make up for bus access time in
>> faster sector access time. Also, has anyone priced a 4 gig SCSI 2.5" drive
>> as of late? Don't know if they even exist!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
>AFAIK, all the big "SCSI" drives (which appear to only be offered by MCE)
>are actually IDE drives with a $150 converter board attached.
>
>- Eric.
AFAIK, neither of you said ANYTHING relevant to a 2300 which came out in
1995. Stick to the question "of the 2300 vintage", not today's new hard
drives.
Paul
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