SCSI Vs IDE Hard Drives? What is better? Your thoughts.

[ArchAngel777]

I have noticed that the 7200 RPM Drives have an access time of 6.7 MS, the fastest IDE 7200 RPM drive is at 8 MS. Access time is a big deal in my book, I don't happen to like SCSI one bit.. but the drives are superior to IDE it would seem. What do you think?

 

[BigLance]

Yea, they are still faster than IDE, but also cost more and are harder to setup.. kinda a tradeoff. Stick with the upper IDE unless your running a server or something crazy, and if you still really want it fast but don't want the SCSI hassle, try IDE Raid.

 

[Dee67]

I like scsi. it's fast, provides good multi-tasking, in my opinion worth it if you're performance minded

 

[Vinny N]

If access time is a big deal, you might always have that nagging feeling in your mind unless you went SCSI

RAID is nice, but it doesn't decrease access time (heck it might increase it!), it just increases sustained transfer rate.

 

[Radboy]

Can pick up a 10Krpm SCSI drive for ~$200 .. plenty of space to run both W2K & WinME, all your apps, and prolly even a Linux distro or two. Use the SCSI to run your OS(es), apps & swap/page file, and keep your ATA drive(s) for cheap mass storage (MP3s, jpegs, scans, back-up files, Ghost images, etc.). $200 will buy you a 10Krpm drive w/ a seek time of 4.x ms (IBM Ultrastar 36LZX or Quantum 10K II).

Which IDE drive has a seek time of 8ms? I know the IBM 75GXP is at 8.5ms seek.

 

[bacillus]

no one seems to have mentioned that to use the scsi drive, he'll need a scsi card as well. I'm not knocking scsi as I have it on my system & love it especially when multitasking!