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How much perforce will I gain/see if i go from...

Are you looking to buy Mikendi's drive? 😉

I believe that particular drive was reviewed at Storage Review, and chances are that your IDE hard drive was as well.

In general, SCSI == good, but for $75, why not buy a recent ATA/100 drive? It would probably be faster (and larger).

~bex0rs
 
You can realize a substantial increase in system performance just switching from 5400 RPM to 7200 RPM ATA/100 at probably a much cheaper price than SCSI.
 
don't bother getting a 7200 rpm scsi drive unless it's for storage as its performance will be about the same as a modern 7200 ata 100 IDE hdd.
you'll also need a scsi card for a scsi drive!
 
you don't need a SCSI hd unless u r doing some very demanding tasks like some graphis and stuff. An ata100 7200 is fast enough for normal users, and of course, much much cheaper.


 
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Everyone seems to be going on about ATA100 drives however you won't see much of a difference between a ATA33/66/100 drive (and/or controller). The best drive on the market (according to popular opinion and storagereview.com) is the IBM Deskstar series which only pushes 37.5MB/sec sustained (according to IBM's specs) this barely justifies the need for ATA66 (to get a whole 4.5MB/sec over ATA33). Now some will still argue "Burst Transfer Rates" however BTR only comes in to play when the drive reads/writes it's memory cache.

Thorin
 
I'm getting some mixed results!! The reason I was planning to do this because I am a upgradeaholic...when i play games...it seems like the HD is loading forever!
 
1) Defrag regularily.
2) Get more RAM.
3) User the "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1" tweak.

Thorin
 
The cost/benefit analysis is hard to compute for something like this because you have to figure if you can afford or you can justify it as a hobby/recreation. Performance will be better with a SCSI. If you can afford it or feel its your hobby/recreation and is worth it to then go for it. -- Obviously, you feel its worth it with to you because of your line of "upgradeaholic." To me it isn't worth it when I can buy a very fast 7200 IDE drive for a hell of a lot less -- but then again, I don't drive a big fancy car either.
 
Buy scsi if you like to do lots of things at once. Even the fastest ide device will make the system slow when ripping cds, dvds, etc.
 
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