Those are best case figures and have little bearing in the real world except
with heavily loaded file servers. If you read a lot of hardrive reviews you
will soon see that the latest EIDE hardrives are frequently faster than the
latest SCSI disks. The product cycles are much shorter for EIDE because they
sell way more of them and the newest high tech gets implemented more often.
I believe data density on EIDE is over 6 gigs per platter now among other
things that we can thank IBM for developing. SCSI is behind the curve in
several ways despite the latest ultra 2 advances.

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-----Original Message-----
From:   PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brad Boutwell
Sent:   Friday, August 20, 1999 1:34 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] My new computer !

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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