[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo

[Chris Lindley]

Hi all,

My wife is gonna get me a new hard drive for my machine for my Crimbo
pressie!!!

Now this machine has always been scsi, at the moment I have a 9.1gig IBM
DNES-309170W LVD 7,200rpm and a SEAGATE ST15150N SCSI-II  4.3gig drives.

Now I need to ditch the Seagate as it's far too noisy.

I was just gonna get the largest cheapest drive I could manage.  This
seems to be 18.1GB Maxtor 68Pin LVD U160 (4.5ms 10Krpm 8Mb cache 1"
High) from Scan for 81 quid inc vat.  (although I 'd really love   146GB
IBM 146Z10 (Daytona) 68Pin LVD 4.7ms 10Krpm 8Mb cache £739.08 {grin})

However what is the current situation with EIDE drives?  The main
advantages of SCSI has always been low CPU usage and generalyl faster
speeds.  However fro a desktop machine with the new DMA/66 drives is
this stil the case?

What are peoples general opinion on this?  Is SCSI still the way to go?

Cheers
Chris


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