[Hudlug] SCSI drives vs EIDE for Crimbo
Chris Lindley
hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Dec 16 14:50:00 2002
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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