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SubjectRe: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?
1. Some hard disk manufactures are using same disk drive (physically) to
make SCSI and ATA. They only change the PCB board.

2. SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 have 8 bit data bus, while ATA have 16 bit data bus.

3. ATA got disk cache built in as well.

4. Some low end of SCSI host card is only 8 Bit card.

Compare by yourself.

Leonard


On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard
> > disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI.
>
> For real work patterns SCSI tends to be faster than IDE. Also for high
> end devices SCSI is wonderful. Most of my smaller boxes are IDE- its just
> not worth the price difference
>
>


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