No, I don't think so... I think a good scsi and a good IDE are much of a muchness, may even find the scsi is a little slower.
I used to stick scsi in all my machines, don't bother any more.
Where the scsi should be noticably faster is when there are multiple users, as in the case of a database feeding say a web server farm.
I imagine the software must be written for it as well and one would expect that from a server, however for a single user, especially just an installation, I don't think you'll get any benefit from a scsi compared to a fast IDE or Serial disk.
Ronald wrote:
I often try out (installing) Linux distributions, so this is an I/O intensive operation (writing to the drive).
Would using SCSI drive significantly improve the installing time? (halve it?)
FYI currently I use Seagate 7200.7 80 GB and to get full 3 GB install takes around ~10 to 20 minutes.
Motherboard is Abit KG7-Raid which doesn't have inbuilt SCSI adapter, so I have to buy a separate adapter. CPU is Athlon XP 2400+ with 512 MB RAM.
And the drive I want to get is probably
Seagate Cheetah 15K.3: 18 GB, 15,000 prm Ultra320 SCSI
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,619,00.html
Thanks
Ronald
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