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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:58 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SCSI

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HCM wrote:

> I now have an Adaptec 29160 card and two (2) 160 SCSI HD's. I'm very happy with the
> speed, access time and performance. It beats anything on the IDE side (I've used
> DISKIO.EXE and SYSBENCH.EXE to test and monitor my previous IDE setup and my
> now SCSI system).

I've had a major investment in SCSI for a long time (talking setup, usage, and performance
here -- as much as in the $$ sense). Nearly all the devices in my system are SCSI. It may be
that today's IDE or USB 2.0 have eaten SCSI's lunch re things like CD or DVD drives, or
external devices. But, when I went looking for a hard drive for a new system, I went to the
webstores of three *major* companies, such as CDW, and, among their pages of product listings
from various mfr.s, I could not find even one IDE type that was faster than 7200 RPM ! Even
the few SATA drives they had were 7200s. Well, the hell with that -- I've been using 10K RPM
drives for the last few years. I would imagine that Seagate or one of the others *must* make some

high-performance drives that aren't SCSI, but I never made it to the mfr. sites to be sure. I
just
decided to stick with SCSI.

I don't know if SCSI hard drives are still much better in the M.T.B.F. / reliability area, which
was
once the case. But what I found suggests to me the possibility that SCSI still holds the high
ground,
when it comes to quality and performance.

Jordan

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