[Gllug] Computer shopping

[Bernard Peek]

In message <3F243580.104 at markpreston.co.uk>, Mark Preston 
<mark at markpreston.co.uk> writes
>Re:-
>
>>>/ PS If you are going to surgest SCSI your going to have to explain why very
>/>/> carefully because 18Gb hard disks do not compare well to 80Gb ones for IDE
>/>/> when SCSI cards are expensive too. If its needed I'm going to need to say
>/>/> /why/ and currently I don't know at all!
>/
>>Three words...
>>5 years warranty
>
>What is the sound like for SCSI drives, are they quieter or more noisy 
>than IDE drives? I've never had a SCSI hard drive, but if they run 
>quietly I'd quite like to know more details of where to get a machine 
>with them running - having had a couple of IDE hard drives fail lately.

I'm not sure about recent models but in the past I've always found SCSI 
drives to be much noisier.



-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.


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