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scuzzi vs ide
Name: Bart Kiefer Date: April 29, 2003 at 19:24:27 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1.5 p4/640 rambus
Comment:
Hi all I don't really have a problem I would just liek to know what is your take on ide vs scuzzi? Any thoughts? I've heard scuzzy is quicker but that's is about all I've heard of scsi. Thanks in advance Bart
Name: johnoh Date: April 29, 2003 at 19:53:33 Pacific
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scsi (that's how its spelled - its a hard drive not your last bad date) is faster, louder, hotter, and more expensive.
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Response Number 2
Name: raincheck Date: April 30, 2003 at 05:34:21 Pacific
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SCSI HD's are generally used in servers, and IDE in PC's. Of course, you can use SCSI HD's in a PC, but with little benefit. SCSI supports better multiple read/write speeds, but you only have that senerio in a server environment. IDE configuration is much simpler as well, no SCSI id's, termination, ect.
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