I've heard many mentions of IDE controller cards. How are the PCI cards
installed and connected to the hard drive? I know how to put in a PCI card
itself. I've been considering a larger faster hard drive for my beige G3.
NickUtah
Todd (Todd Ronnei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I know I'm a day late and maybe not a dollar short.
> I would like to say that you are right about the IDE being cheaper. (here it
> comes) But the difference is not that bad. I found three places on
> pricewatch.com that has 38G SCSI II fast and wide for $89. For me I felt
> the speed I get from that and a $40 FORMAC scsi II PCI card was worth it.
>
> In a fair comparison, (that is one of similar speed) you would have to get a
> comparably priced upgraded IDE-PCI card to take advantage of the newer,
> faster IDE drives. So the card was a wash for me.
>
> The speed difference I experienced from that upgrade was twice again as good
> as the difference I experienced putting a G3 card in. It turned out that my
> sm was old and slow disk bound.
>
> So I too reccomend that you upgrade your drive, but only if you go for the
> faster ones. That means getting a new PCI interface, whichever way you go;
> IDE or SCSI
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