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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: IDE vs SCSI (was Re: BSD and Internet) Date: 30 Sep 1994 10:29:54 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <36gpb2$qr8@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <1703E13F26S86.AM7925A@american.edu> <36bvje$g2n@jabba.cybernetics.net> <blake_chard-2809941520200001@mac100.bmd.trw.com> <CwwD8y.6p0@irbs.com> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) In <CwwD8y.6p0@irbs.com> jc@irbs.com (John Capo) writes: >SCSI drive cost is less than 10% over IDE drives so drive cost is >a wash. A SCSI controller is more expensive but if you have to >buy a tape controller and a cdrom controller you loose. As soon as you want to add a 3rd disk with IDE, life becomes fun. Also, as soon as you start going to disk sizes over 500M, there is not much available in the way of IDE (at least not over here). (Problem is, what you get is often a matter of what you can afford right now -- that often happens to be IDE -- sigh.) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \