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#! rnews 1488 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!netra1.HomeNet.ie!news.uoregon.edu!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need a new machine...is IDE ok? Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 23:28:06 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <313E9006.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <4hjooo$a2f@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> Doug Lerner wrote: > I want to use the machine for news and mail. Should I spend MUCH more on > a SCSI machine or make one myself, or are people successfully installing I certainly recommend it. SCSI peripherals are generally better behaved, faster (in terms of transfer overhead, anyway) and easier to migrate between different machines should you decide to upgrade or expand later. A SCSI controller will also do a lot more than let you put a couple of drives on it - you can also stick CDs, tapes, scanners, all manner of devices there. There are no IDE drives in any of my systems! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project