>I can afford either dual Athlon 1,2GHz with EIDE disks, or single >Athlon 1,53MHz with SCSI Ultra160 disks. Any idea which would be best >(the post below emphasises the importance of SMP).
i would try to get a dual motherboard with onboard SCSI. don't use SCSI for now; upgrade later if you need it. dual CPU's is going to make your life much nicer than SCSI will, i believe. OTOH, i've never used IDE/ATA/EIDE so its hard for me to know :) --p
