SCSI...should I or shouldn't I?

[Tullphan]

I'm new to SCSI stuff.
Since IDE hard drives are getting larger, faster & cheaper, would one want SCSI for CD copying only?
How much will having a SCSI card installed slow down boot-up or take from system resources?
Would it be feasible to invest in a SCSI card if one would only get one SCSI device (like a cd-rom)?
If it is feasible, which card? U, UW, U2W?
Thanks for your input.

 

[ojai00]

If you're doing direct CD COPYING, then you should get a faster CD-ROM drive. If your CD-RW is BURNPROOF, then you should be fine. Save that money and upgrade something else in your system. Hope this helps.

 

[gothictech]

I'm running a SCSI sub system in both of my systems for the past 4yr and love it.
2 HD's, CD-ROM and CDRW in each system.
As for boot up slowing, mine isn't too bad plus I don't mind waiting a extra sec or two.
Going SCSI for just a CD-ROM wouldn't be a very wise choice IMHO,unless you just like to spend money.
For which type of card to get would be dependent on what you were going to be using on it.

 

[ctk1981]

Ive always wanted to do SCSI..but I simply lack the $$$$. I think most people are poor like me when it comes to that kind of playing around 🙂

 

[Willoughbyva]

I used to be all scsi, but since EIDE is getting better and better I haven't been SCSI in about 3 or 4 years.

I say just stay with IDE.



Will

 

[ShadowAvatar]

SCSI is a nice investment, but it's usually expensive. I went all the way - I have an Adaptec 3210S RAID /160 controller and two Cheetah X15's, two Quantum 10K's, an IBM 10K for just swap and temp stuff, and two UltraPlex Max's. There is nothing IDE that can touch this. The seek times of the 15K rpm drives is just far and above what any 7200 IDE drive does, and RAID-0 makes greats thruput. And cabling is actually much nicer, since everything fits on two channels.