Thinking of moving to SCSI....

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Originally posted by pudad
meh, it doesn't hurt to blow a little air over the drives, you gotta have some circulation anyways. Might as well set the drives up around where the air would be comming into your case.

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That is plenty. I think the only time I'd worry about having them "cooled" would be if I had a ton of drives in a big RAID that were just getting slammed constantly with hits (not likely for home use). In that case, I might have a fan or two blowing on the array in a climate controlled environment, but I doubt even that would be 100% necessary.

I have been running SCSI at home for a long time, but I can't really say that it makes any sense at all for home use. It's not really practical. Top level SCSI hard drives are still over $10 per gig, vs. about $1 a gig for IDE. The drives tend to be hot and LOUD. It's nice to be able to connect 14 devices to one controller, but the drives tend to be much smaller than IDE, so you'll probably have to mount several SCSI drives to replace a single IDE.

It's a little bit faster, but for gaming it doesn't make much of a difference. Multiple data requests is what SCSI is really great at vs. IDE.

I nearly went back to IDE, serial ATA looks pretty good. I would have had the WD Raptor not been so disappointing.

hey, he can alweays have a couple ide drives on the side for massive storage stuff. heh, only if those ide to scsi converters weren't so expensive, It would be sweet to have 2 or 3 more drives on the scsi bus that don't cost so much as a scsi does.

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Originally posted by michael.oakes
I nearly went back to IDE, serial ATA looks pretty good. I would have had the WD Raptor not been so disappointing.

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I've got a Raptor in my main rig and I think it's the shiznit.:)

Agreed, the raptor is nice stuff, I maybe getting one soon to test out, and I looks forward to it. But I prefer scsi, it has been around longer, and scsi is more flexible. Sata is too new for my taste.