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I must beg to differ. Drives of the new Ultra2 SCSI type are capable of 80
MB/sec. speed, which is considerably faster than the (I believe) maximum
UltraDMA 37 MB/sec.
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I was speaking from the viewpoint of a cost-conscience designer, which the
poster said was his primary concern. To even further the SCSI bandwagon,
you can now get up to 160 MB/sec, but that type of bandwidth is not crucial
to a typical designer using PhotoShop and CorelDraw. Don't get me wrong, I
am not downing SCSI drives (I own 4), but they are not economical for
end-users by any means.
When the next round of motherboards are released, ATA-66 will be mainstream
and will bring higher-bandwidth drives even closer to end-users because this
technology has only a nominal increase in cost. They are available now, but
require the purchase of a controller card, so that point is mute also.
Brad
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