Greetings--
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From: Brad Boutwell <[log in to unmask]>

> get a SCUZZY drive if possible as ther are faster...plus you can
> attach a Scanner to it.
>
>
> *************
>
> Not to be confrontational, but SCSI hard drives no longer provide the
huge
> performance gain over EIDE drives that they once did.

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.

> Add in
> the fact that you can get a 27 GB EIDE drive for less than you can get an
18
> GB SCSI drive and it makes the choice even more obvious for the budget
> minded.

Cost being the major limiting constraint of the original poster, the
remainder of the post is spot-on re: cost/performance.

> You would also have to purchase a SCSI card or a MB with built-in
> SCSI which will cost anywhere from $60 up, and you do NOT want a cheap
> controller running your system (a zip drive, maybe, but not your HD). The
> bottom-of-the-line cards don't even offer you that external port for the
> scanner mentioned above...
>
> I picked up a 20 GB 7200 RPM Maxtor drive at CompUSA for I think $280,
which
> is a steal.  You can get a smaller size for less money of course.
>
> The most important thing here, as mentioned by others, is how much RAM
you
> have.  For graphic work, I would recommend a minimum of 128 of you can
> afford it, because it is the most called-upon resource by graphic
> applications, with your CPU being second.
>

Just my $.02, FWIW.

Paul A. Shippert                        Library/Media Specialist
"All what we got here's American-made.
  It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed." Frank Zappa
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