Congratulations for the professional results Rob ! :-) Rob , we have been here before , you are right , but I am not living in USA , but in Italy and I buy on eBay USA with credit card, I have 3 U160 IBM 10000rpm and NO FANS at all while the box is a cheap box I have assembled on my own with a 350W power supply ( 20$ the power supply at any shop) and a cage costing 30$ at any shop.
IDE and SCSI when coming to the HDA (hard disk files) are the same but different protocol implementation .... just IDE a little bit more obsolete in facts they follow the SCSI implementations by 6 or 12 months after. Sincerely. Ezio www.lucenti.com e-photography site ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Geraghty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:06 AM Subject: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images > Ezio wrote: > >I really cannot understand why it would be needed such a complication and > >dependancy from the controller vendor when the SCSI hard drives cost almost > >the same (or 20% more max) of IDE hard drives ! > > Ezio, I know we've been here before, but SCSI isn't a cheap option for everyone. > Certainly, if I was in the US and had access to the sorts of prices you > quote from ebay, I'd use SCSI... well, there's other problems. If I wanted > to use a 10Krpm SCSI drive I'd also have to fit a cooling fan in my computer > and move house to somewhere that had air-conditioning. I simply couldn't > run such hard drives in 30+C temperatures reliably. I can buy two 7200rpm > IDE drives locally for about US$250, plus another US$45 for an IDE RAID > controller. The SCSI option (in Australia) would cost me US$200 for the > SCSI controller card, and at least US$500 for an equivalent capacity 10Krpm > SCSI drive. Plus, the IDE drives would behave themselves more reliably outside > of an airconditioned office. > > Obscanning: on a completely different topic, I've just taken a roll of Provia > 100F using two L series Canon lenses. I should get back the results tomorrow > so I can get an idea of how much difference the lenses made in scanning > on the LS30. > > Rob > > PS I got two more of my photos on the magazine cover. Scanned with the LS30 > and they look great! :) > > > Rob Geraghty [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wordweb.com > > >