Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Which is better IDE or SCSI?
Name: Arcosanti Date: November 20, 2003 at 20:16:41 Pacific OS: Win95B OSR2 CPU/Ram: P-MMX 166MHz 80 MB
Comment:
I am considering getting a hard drive controller card and am wanting to know which type is the best, IDE or SCSI? I do know that SCSI appears to be much more expensive than IDE, but does allow you to chain quite a few drives. Also I have heard that you can run IDE drives on SCSI. If this is true how do you go about hooking an IDE drive up to the SCSI interface as it seems to use some other type of ribbon cable?
Name: sonnysandiego Date: November 20, 2003 at 20:25:01 Pacific
Reply:
IDE is all you need.
0
Response Number 2
Name: Adam Date: November 20, 2003 at 20:29:56 Pacific
Reply:
Put it this way, do you have a large number of clients accessing your HDD at one time? Do you have money to burn? If you answer no to both questions, then there is no need to even look at SCSI, your best bet is SATA, if you want good speed, a basic SATA controller and a decent SATA HDD is the way to go. If you want blistering speed, then you should look at a SATA RAID controller and a pair of WD Raptors, even the SATA RAID option is cheaper than any non-RAID Ultra160 SCSI solution and its faster.
0
Response Number 3
Name: Adam Date: November 20, 2003 at 20:31:40 Pacific
Reply:
Just saw your basic system specs, forget about both SCSI and SATA, go with IDE.
0
Response Number 4
Name: Arcosanti Date: November 20, 2003 at 20:51:06 Pacific
Reply:
Ok. I did get a 120 GB drive recently and I am interested in getting it up and running on this old system. I want to put at lest 3 8.4 GB partions for win95 and then make a big one for Linux.
0
Response Number 5
Name: pauly Date: November 20, 2003 at 21:26:19 Pacific
Reply:
You have our OK to go ahaead and do that. :-)
0
Response Number 6
Name: Free Weasel Date: November 21, 2003 at 11:22:12 Pacific
Reply:
I doubt that your bios will be able to even detect the harddrive! You have to download the overlay software from the drive manufacturer and hope that works.
My best wishes !!!
0
Response Number 7
Name: Arcosanti Date: November 21, 2003 at 16:54:50 Pacific
Reply:
Actually I already have a drive with ezbios on it. I think I'll slave the 120 GB drive to the drive with the overlay and then transfer over all of the system stuff to the 120 GB drive. Then I'll swap out the old Award bios and put in an upgraded bios. This bios won't require any overlay. Once I do the swap on the bios I'll then make the 120 GB drive the master and the old drive i'll wipe clean if no problems occur with the 120 GB drive. Then I'll make the old drive the slave. I'll probably just get rid of the current slave drive since it seems to be developing bad clusters near the end of the drive.
Summary: Hello Again, My question is simple (but very long): Which is better SCSI or USB2.0? I own a P3 1GHz/256MB Laptop and want to buy loads of peripherals (external HD, ext. CDRW, etc) but I’m not sure wh...
0 
BIOS Reading wrong
