On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2003-07-06 11:37:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Do you LIKE paying 3-5X as much for drives and playing the SCSI voodoo
game? 8-0 >>
I can find 9GB 10k rpm SCSI160 drives for between $20 and $35. That is FINE
by me. I like paying for something thats 3-5X as fast too. I guess a 9GB ATA
drive would cost like $4?
A 10K 9gb drive for $20 is going to be used...*very* used, considering that it likely is coming out of an upgrade or decommissioned server or RAID box
$20-$35 will probably get you a 20-30 GB drive. $40 will get you a brand new 7200 rpm 40GB drive. This is not 3-5X as slow as your 9gb drive.
(Your B&W can't keep up with those 10K drives of yours anyway....so the speed difference is largely moot.)
And SCSI VooDoo? What SCSI VooDoo? Ive never had
a problem. What about ATA VooDoo? You know, where you only get 2 drives max
per bus and you probably have to set up some funky stuff to even get the 2nd
drive working.
Beyond a very old drive that did not play well with others, I've never had a problem with ATA drives.
Setting the master/slave config is simpler than setting a SCSI address.
Finally, for $50 or so I can buy a 40 GB 7200 rpm drive.
If you filled your SCSI card (I'll be charitable and give you a dual-channel card, and imagine the space to put them all in there) you would have 14 9g drives, costing you between $280-$500. giving you a grand total of 126 GB of storage.
For that price I could have 300-400 GB of storage with ATA drives.
The toughest thing about SCSI is making sure you dont use the same SCSI ID twice, which actually isnt tough at all.
Like I said, the toughest thing about ATA is making sure that the device on a bus are differently set as master/slave/cable select.
With cable select I can tell by looking at the cable which is which.
I have three possible jumper positions. You have 8.
I mean SCSI has a place, and perhaps a place in people's hearts, but don't try to says it's easier and cheaper than ATA. It isn't.
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