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Originally posted by 100%TotallyNude:
Your not making any sense. Why in the world wouldn't you buy something more reliable?
Hres my take/experience: 1) SCSI drives are more expensive, but no THAT much more. 2) In IDE's court, I don't know that they are any more reliable than SCSI's today. I use ATA/66's in my main workstation and they seem fine for what I do. 3) SCSI I/O systems have tended in the past for me to be easier to configure, and even to the present. I just put a a new 20Meg WD ATA/100 in my wife's old non-ATA mode board becuase thats all that was available on the shelf, not that is should have mattered, but to get the thing active I had to run WD's included software, which for some reason insisted on backing up the existing data on the old drive, and the software errored out on doing that. Finnally I ended up with a 10 Meg drive. What happened to the other 10 Megs??? Now I have to sit down tonight and figure out what the deal is with this drive that did a back up of the old drive that I didn't want it to do in the first place and find the missing 10 Megs.
This wouldn't happen with a SCSI drive. I guarantee it. You slap the drive in to an empty slot in the chain, and boom, its there. No mess no fess.
[This message has been edited by 100%TotallyNude (edited November 20, 2000).]
1. SCSI is like twice as expensive as IDE, not even including the extra controller card. You can buy a 20GB 7200rpm ATA100 IDE drive for like $140 or less on