>FWIW, I upgraded my 9600 by adding a PCI-IDE card (Sonnet's was on
>sale at the time) and picked up a 20 GB Maxtor for a total cost of
>$200. This was a while ago, and you might be able to do a little
>better now. I use this drive as my boot disk, and it has been plug
>and play from the start and an upgrade I don't think about any more.
>
>>I need to get new HD to upgrade my 9500.
>>
>>Should I look to stay with standard SCSI that built in?
>>
>>Should I look to get a faster PCI SCSI card?
>>
>>Should I look to get a IDE ATA 100 card?
>>
>>What have other list members done?
> >
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The answer depends on what you do with your computer and how
much money you want to spend on it.
I have two 9600's (And working on a third one) that I built
up for mostly Photoshop use. I put a Quantum Atlas II 36 GB 10,000
RPM hard drive in to run the computer from because it makes the 9600
faster. Then I put two 80 GB IDE Maxtor hard drives in so I would
have a large space to store graphics files in.
In principle, SCSI hard drives are more expensive and they
used to be higher quality, although I think that difference may be
narrowing. IDE drives are pretty good quality these days. Personally
I prefer to run my computer from the SCSI drive and put a backup
system folder on a partition on each of the IDE hard drives.
If you put in an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card and a 68 pin SCSI
hard drive in your 9500 it will be faster. But more expensive.
If you put the above mentioned Sonnet ULtra ATA-66 IDE/PCI
card in and hook a new Maxtor hard drive to it, it will be faster
than using stock IDE that shipped with that generation of computer (I
don't know if the 9500 has IDE, I'm not familiar with it, but my
StarMax's did have and the Sonnett card made them faster).
It follows the law of computers: Faster costs more. Figure
out what you can spend and use whichever system fits your budget.
But don't buy small hard drives. For me personally, I haven't bought
anything smaller than 80 GB (IDE) or 36 GB (SCSI) for a while and 40
GB (IDE) or 18 GB (SCSI) is the smallest hard drive I would even
consider buying. The computer world changes fast. Last year's
"adequate" hard drive is too small this year.
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