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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18795 comp.os.linux.hardware:2403 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5463 comp.os.os2.misc:126844 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!vnr0001 From: vnr0001@jove.acs.unt.edu (Vijay Narayan Ramasubramanian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Date: 13 Feb 1995 07:28:02 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3hn1m2$2dv@hermes.unt.edu> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <mreg.137.00270D6C@panix.com> <D3L3KM.FIJ@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3MwsE.KF0@sci.kun.nl> <D3ooGs.CD4@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hf3f6$fmi@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jove.acs.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'd like to point out that IDE/EIDE is not at all the flaming piece of crap which you bill it to be...it is true that the old IDE was not nearly as fast as SCSI could be..but under DOS...SCSI wasn't NEARLY as fast as all SCSI proponents claim...NOT TO MENTION that a SCSI setup was EXPENSIVE...now with EIDE, performance has almost doubled for the price...true, IDE will bever truly be as fast as SCSI, but even in multitasking OSes like OS/2, EIDE holds its own...those who want SCSI performance, as always, will spring for the extra cost (and you cannot deny that a SCSI setup worth having costs more)...finally, EIDE CD-ROMs are quite fast, and again the question comes up, do you want very nice performane at a great price from an EIDE Mitsumi, or awesome performance at a not so hot price from Plextor? Thus, the question is: how much do you want to spend, and what do you expect from your hardware...for me, a fast EIDE setup works great... -- -Vijay Ram (vnr0001@jove.acs.unt.edu)