Greetings-- ----- Original Message ----- 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 [log in to unmask] Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html