SCSI prices are starting to drop wuite a bit but still don't compare to IDE
and probably never will.. who knows but the problem I hate about IDE is
(like someone just mentioned) that it waits for the controller to pas the
data etc..
What makes that worse is that most people have things like IDE CDROMs on the
same channel as the HDD and you notice the speed straight away when you do
some installs and the HDD suddenly decides to stop and wait for the CDROM to
get its data and then speed off again.
This is why the only IDE I have is the CDROM and eveything else is SCSI.
6 months ago I got 2 x Ultra 2 LVD 9GB drives for $480 each and that was
cheap in those days and are running quite fine under NT as RAID 0... Like to
see the performance of those IDE RAIDs go.. apparantly they do go but
nothing like SCSI...
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Rennie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:50 AM
To: Paul Haddon
Cc: Marshall, Joshua; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] IDE vs SCSI
> OTOH, there are cards such as the 3ware Escalade series that bring
> SCSI benefits to IDE drives. They have independant channels to each
> of 2, 4 or 8 drives, and appear to the PC as a SCSI host. As a benefit
> you can either span the drives or make them a RAID.
Do you have anymore info on these ? Sounds like a nice hedge between the
cheapness of IDE and the performance of SCSI, assuming they aren't to
expensive.
Jason
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