Is scsi cd rom as fast as ide cdrom

[surfactant]

I am getting a new system and I am wondering if my present cd/cd burner system is as fast as a new cd/cd burner (ide). I have a scsi 50-pin (wide) system. The reason I am asking this is that I plan to get a new motherboard and I have to decide whther to get new cd/cd burner (and probably get more channels like serial/raid configs) I prefer to keep 1 device per channel and like to run 2 hard drives.
thanks for any feedback Mark

 

[Sunner]

What speed is the burner?
The interface has nothing to do with the speed of the burner in itself.

No burner/reader will tax neither a SCSI nor IDE interface, unless we're talking really fast burners/readers on really old interfaces.

 

[surfactant]

Actually i was just interested in the comparitive speeds between the two in reading. The burner is 12x thats cool with me its old and i don't have the need to "burn Fast"I was just interested if I should abandon the scsi because the ide is faster than the 50 pin wide scsi

any help appreciated mark

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: surfactant
Actually i was just interested in the comparitive speeds between the two in reading. The burner is 12x thats cool with me its old and i don't have the need to "burn Fast"I was just interested if I should abandon the scsi because the ide is faster than the 50 pin wide scsi

any help appreciated mark

Well, I assume your SCSI card is either SCSI-2(10 MB/Sec) or U-SCSI(20 MB/Sec)?
ATA-100 is of course a far faster bus, and a modern 40X+ burner will of course be quite a bit faster than a 12X burner, no matter what interface it's on.

But abandoning the 12X just cause ATA-100 happens to be faster than SCSI-2 wouldn't make much sense, since even a 52X burner will saturate the SCSI bus.
The only reason I can see to get a new IDE burner would be if you feel the need to burn CD's faster, or if you need to a free up a PCI slot that the SCSI card uses.

 

[surfactant]

How about cd rom reading speeds? i feel there is a short delay compared to ide when using my 40x plextor scsi cd rom


Thanks for information Mark

 

[Sunner]

1X = 150 KBytes/sec
40X = 6.000 KBytes/sec
SCSI-2 = 10.000 KBytes/sec

If there are performance problems, they are most likely related to your CD-rom, rather than your SCSI card.

Anyways, what exactly do you mean by "short delay"?
At boot?
When burning?
Spinup time?