Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is so true, and was my bottom line in my previous past posts.
> Not only do you have the more expensive drive, you have to get an
> expensive controller as well, as motherboards don't usually come with
> SCSI onboard.
Quoting a post to elsewhere:
(1) Tekram DC-395UW PCI host adapter with Symbios (LSILogic) chipset, US
$71 at the first mail-order place I checked. There are better ones;
that one's OK.
I don't often look up prices of host adapters, because I make a point of
favouring parts that can be usefully recycled through multiple
generations of machines. (There are a couple of unused Adaptec
AHA-2940UW cards in the garage, I think.)
(2) Hard drives these days come in basically one size, called "bigger
than you can fill, and bigger than you can economically back up". Your
$200 buys the same size in either SCSI or ATA ("IDE"): both "bigger
than (et al.)", with a greater amount of excess-more-than-I-can-use
space in the ATA case.
Of course, you _might_ have the world's largest pr0n collection, or a
complete collection of Farscape DIVXes, or something like that. In
which case, some n>1 of ATA drives on a 3Ware Escalade will indeed be
just the ticket (while you brood over your lack of backup).
--
Cheers, There are only 10 types of people in this world --
Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't.
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