> I have a Power Macintosh 7300/200. I want to add a larger hard drive.
> The one I have is two gigs. Most people talk about using a scsi and they
> usually recommend a Seagate Barracuda. But today I was reading about
> somebody wanting to upgrade a 7600/200 and he said he wanted to get a ide
> pci card to go with another type of hard drive because it would be faster
> than the slow scsi. What is this all about?
An IDE card/drive combo has a significant price advantage at large
capacities. For example, my 18GB Seagate SCSI-2 data drive cost $259 about
a month and a half ago, which if I had spent on an IDE drive, would have
bought over double the capacity. Even factoring in the cost of the card,
I would still have gotten more space.
However, this price difference breaks down on smaller size drives of around
9GB (compare the cost of an IDE adaptor + drive, versus a SCSI drive alone),
and there are two other disadvantages. One is that there have been reported
problems with audio stuttering when playing back from the hard disk (this
is with the Sonnet ATA card). The other is that the IDE card consumes a
valuable PCI slot -- in my machine, with a USB card, a video capture card
and a 3D accelerator, this is no longer an option. (7300/180)
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