--- Will Schou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you've got money to burn then sure you can buy a SCSI PCI card > and > SCSI hard drive that will likely be "better" then the ATA PCi card > and > IDE drive. But It's going to cost you twice as much and the drive > will > be smaller most likely. > IDE drives are better then they used to be and they are big and > cheap > and plenty good enough for most of us. My old SCSI 50 pin drives > that > came with the UMAX still run just fine but they are loud and slow > compared to the IDE drives. Most of the die hard SCSI snobs have > changed their ways in the last couple of years. ;-) Will S > Who once thought IDE drives were for PC dummies only ;-)
They still are! Just that level of Dumminness is not stationary either:) EIDE is a cheap hack compared to SCSI, but it's getting better. The main trouble is that few of manufacturers follow the standards to the letter. But if it works for you and does everything you need, by all means use it and reap the economical benefits. Why not? If you need true multitasking, multithreading reliability for any period of time longer than a few minutes, then you may look into hardware more closely. Probably, professional audio-video production work fits the bill. I had to replace a so called server from Dell recently by a 9 y o old SUN SS20 box outfitted by 2 SCSI drives from my S900, old 75 MHz SuperSparc II and 128 MB RAM. Takes close to 80k hits a day (all static), which is nothing spectacular except that it beats 2001 vintage Dell PowerEdge in reliability: we had unbearably frequent powerdowns -> downtime. So, it all depends on your tasks at hand and the environment. For fun Corvette is fine, but if you start dropping 40 ton bricks in its luggage trunk it will not survive. That's were rocket-launcher vehicle or a 60 ton truck is needed. I will move slower, but it will move non-stop. With modern SCSI technology you can achieve both : speed and scalabilty. The question is: who needs it? Comparisons of old SCSI to the latest EIDE are as valid as the comparisons by Linux bigots of their tools to MS-DOS they still call Windows. Remember though that IDE is a cheapo hack designed to emulate SCSI years ago. Btw, Apple's reliabilty problems grew drastically after they dropped SCSI and put poorly designed hardware into poorly designed half-cooked Performa 600 and everything that came in later. Used to be one could count that Apples last 2-3 times longer than Intels, now they push us with their crappy hardware designs and beta OS to pay on a more frequent basis. Don't get me started on why they they put this wonderful CPU chip on that horrific chipset. Clock per clock G4 can do 8 times more work than any Intel, yet they are hampered by the chipsets and total lack of vectorised software. All good developers are gone where the money is. Anyway, no matter what, Merry Christmas :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
