On Friday 22 March 2002 05:04 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > Burner's an IDE, I don't care for SCSI drives in a desktop PC.
> > I've turned off devfs a few times but only to test. I reckon
> > devfs is here to stay, so I try and make things work with it.
> > .... or get different things ;)
> Tom, can I butt in on this thread and ask why you don't like SCSI
> drives? I've got a DVD and CDRW that are both SCSI. It made it much
> easier to do disk to disk dupes since programs found the 2 devices
> on the chain easier. Also, when playing games, the SCSI's seem to
> outperform my old IDE CD-ROMs by far. (no powering down, then
> taking what seems like forever to spin backup). Of course, if you
> don't play any games then... ;-)
That spin up/down you're citing is indicative of the marketing
hype Civileme mentioned about the belief that faster is better, eg,
52x Cdroms vs. 8x. All Cdroms, burners, and HDD's, whether SCSI or
IDE run on the 33 Mhz PCI bus.
> I was just curious about your reasons...Thanks!
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. I should'a just said
'I prefer IDE for a desktop PC'. Probly just prejudice on my part,
but I don't believe the little real world performance increase (yeah,
I know that _theoretically_ it's almost 20% increase), justifies the
increased cost and the need for SCSI controllers. Surely SCSI is a
good choice for production server systems, but many are run with IDE
drives and provide near equal performance and reliability at lower
cost.
That's mostly HDD's tho. As for burners, a SCSI isn't gonna
turn out CD's any faster than an IDE. Specially since I believe
media (CDr's) are the limiting factor. If you want reliable CD's,
don't burn 'em faster than 8x. When I make copies of Mandrake CD's
for friends, I burn at 4x after 'dd'ing the iso to a HDD first. Now
if you're working in a shop making 1000's of CD's, you should probly
use a SCSI burner, but still have the source iso on a HDD ;>
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