Re: G3 mini-tower

[Jesse Stanford]

A good SCSI is comparable to ATA, however in order to get a 
high-speed scsi bus that IS comparable to ATA you have to buy an 
add-on card anyway.  IMHO, you were using ATA/66 not ATA/133.  In 
order to have a good ata bus you not only have to have the right bus 
but the right hardware for that bus as well.  If you have an ATA/133 
drive on an ATA/133 bus it will run fine.  An ATA/66 on an ATA/133 
bus will drop everything to 66 anyway.
<rant>

Ick. While I'll grant that the latest generation of parallel and 
serial ATA drives are much-improved over the older ATA drives, they 
still don't compare to a good SCSI bus. If you look beyond published 
specifications, and actually perform tests, you'll find that command 
queueing and better bus protocols present in SCSI products make SCSI 
a much better choice for real-world performance than ATA in a busy 
multi-tasking machine.

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