it depends on which kind of SCSI and which kind of IDE. An ATA-100 IDE drive is really fast. Probably quite a bit faster then a narrow SCSI 1 device. Especially if you have a fast CPU. If you have a slower CPU then the SCSI device might be as fast or faster. SCSI works on its own bus that is independent of the CPU while IDE requires that the CPU handle its transactions. This is the primary reason for the speed difference. In many cases the only physical difference between a given IDE and SCSI drive from the same manufacturer is the presence of a SCSI BIOS on one of the otherwise identical drives. ATA-100 devices are very fast. A few days ago at work I was ghosting a hard drive from another hard drive. Both were ATA-100 drives on the asus A7V's promise 100 controller. It was a 900 or so meg transfer and it was completed in under 4 seconds. Fast enough? SCSI is more extensible then IDE though. The only device on a SCSI chain that gets an IRQ is the controller card. Hope that gives you some food for thought! I hate it when I ask a question about hardware and I get "this is better" "no, This is better" with no reasons why ;-) Abe gcobb wrote: > > SCSI is definitely faster. It's also more costly, but has many benefits. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Smith > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 6:57 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT > > > > > > this came up the other day. > > someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. > > i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from > > experience. > > is this true?? > > > > thanks much > > no more questions for now > > > > > > > > Adrian Smith > > 'de telepone dude > > Telecom Dept. > > x 7042 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- The frammisgoshes should be distimmed because a frammisgosh is like a farble and distimming is like gosketing and our ancestors always gosketed the farbles. --R.A. Wilson
