on 10/24/00 4:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/24/00 3:33:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> This raises a question for me. In 2.5" hard drives of the 2300 vintage,
>> aren't you better off with a SCSI than an IDE (of the same size) because
>> of
>> the SCSI being faster than the IDE?
>
> Hmmmmm....bus limitations being what they are, doubt you'd see much
> difference, and the faster EIDE drives should make up for bus access time in
> faster sector access time. Also, has anyone priced a 4 gig SCSI 2.5" drive
> as of late? Don't know if they even exist!
>
> Andrew
>
AFAIK, all the big "SCSI" drives (which appear to only be offered by MCE)
are actually IDE drives with a $150 converter board attached.
- Eric.
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