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SCSI ?

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JamesDoan

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Hey guys, I'm new to these computers and still a amauter so bear with me. I was wonder what big of a difference a normal 7200 RpM hard drive and a 10k SCSI harddrive would be. what would I need to use a SCSI hardrive ? is it worth it if I use it on a home system ? I'll be using the computer to use with media, video, graphics extensively.
 
If you dont plan on having ALL SCSI system its not worth the trouble.. Your IDE 7200 ATA 100 drives today will perform very well and about the same as average U160 single drives.. SCSI is for the multitasker and best suited to dual processor systems and/or high performance all SCSI rigs. It can get quite expensive and the average user would be disappointed. I love my all SCSI system, but its not for everyone.
 
I understand. when you say multitasker, what do you mean by that ? I might be using my computer to do many many things at once. I'm not sure if having many programs open qualifies. How much more expsensive and what type of performance would benefit from an all SCSI component system ?
 
Cost difference == massive.

If you get 10K rpm drives (more likely than not Ultra-160) you'll be paying a heck of a lot more. You can usually get 2-3 very nice IDE-drives for one "top" SCSI-drives.

The last IBM U160 10K rpm drives I bought (*think* they were 18 GB's, but may have been 36 GBs) were around 400-500 £ if I recall correctly.

In essence, SCSI is not financially viable, unless you're intending to do either of the following two:

* Use a SERIOUS workstation
* Build a server.

SCSI *is* faster, more reliable & Hot-swappable (if you have SCA drives & a hotswap-backplane). There's quite a few benefits for SCSI for SERIOUS systems. I doubt most "home-users" require it.

It depends on what you want to do, really.

I am 99% positive that pretty much whatever you want to do (unless you need real RAID or hotswap redundancy), you will be better off with IDE price-wise. If you've got the cash, go ahead & buy a nice SCSI/RAID-controller & those drives.

However, IDE will be a LOT cheaper. What's your reason behind thinking you might need SCSI? Basically - it boils down to this: Tell us what you want to use the system for & then you'll see whether it's financially viable to use SCSI for it or not. Do be prepared for quite a financial "loss" if you go SCSI... 😀

It's a nice technology, but rather pricy 🙁.

Hope this helps... 🙂
 
I boot to a 9GB SCSI 10,000rpm ($360.00 for drive and scsi card) and us a 45GB ata 100 for storage ($180.00) Much faster....
 
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