On Aug 5, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Gene Osburn wrote:
No. ATA drives are just as fast (you're bound by the 66Mhz bus speed
in the B&W anyway) and vastly cheaper and far less fiddly.
Gotta disagree with at least some of that, Bruce. The average user
can get performance somewhat comparable to SCSI systems from newer
7200 RPM+ ATA drives, but they're not truly "just as fast" as many
folks believe. The more demanding the load you put on your Mac,
the more you'll begin to appreciate Ultra SCSI (especially Ultra2
LVD).
Well, if you're that demanding of your Mac's performance, why the
heck are you using a B&W?
Ultra and Ultra2 SCSI are platinum-plated gold and diamond encrusted
solutions; you don't stick 'em on an old, slow system; it's not worth
spending ten times the worth of the system on drives.
The only way this is faster is if your transferring data from one
drive to another. Either solution (SCSI or ATA133) is faster than
you can get data to the CPU through the system bus.
Performance isn't the only criterion; there's also price and ease of
use.
I added a 200G drive to my system for $72 for the drive and $28 for
the external firewire case.
No it's not as fast as an Ultra2 LVD scsi drive, but I didn't have to
mortgage the house to get it, either.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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