SCSI-the only way to go!

[Crashman]

I've been using a Sony 8x4x32x SCSI writer at full speed on generic CDR's with no errors, and the buffer stays full! SCSI takes the pressure off you IDE controller and can access two or more drive simultaneuosly, unlike IDE. This is the first time I have been able to do this-buffer underruns on all IDE writers I have tried when running other apps simultaniously. I never tried the new drives with BurnProof, but I don't need them anymore. And the included Hotburn software works fine. I think this improvement is soley do to the fact that this time I went SCSI! SCSI, what a beatifull thing it is!

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

I agree. I have been using a SCSI Yamaha 8X burner for over a year and have never seen the buffer at anything but 100%. Get a Kenwood 52x SCSI Cd-Rom and do what ever you want while burning. BTW SCSI buring barely uses the processor if at any.

pill128

Take your pill, and get some sleep.

 

[Crashman]

Yes, I have an IDE HDD and a SCSI HDD. I can burn from the SCSI HDD to the SCSI CDRW while playing my favorite 3D games from the IDE HDD and IDE CD-ROM with no affects to the SCSI devices.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Arrow]

The more you pay (SCSI vs IDE) the better it'll get

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[Crashman]

I got my SCSI card, cables, and Hard Drive for free. I refurbish systems, and pulled these from scrapped systems where the potential customers of the refurbished units know nothing about SCSI. Actually, the drive cost me nothing + a $30 IDE hard drive I had to use to replace it in that system. The card was still free. The only thing that cost any significant amount more was the CDRW, about $30 more (I paid $169) And I don't really need the extra hard drive. So in reality the total price difference was only $30.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Arrow]

Wow, lucky you... As for myself, a situation like that is very unlikely 😉

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[Crashman]

I purchase my sytems (not my personal system) used from government surplus, and refurbish the units for use as PC's. It's easy. And most used PC buyers don't know SCSI, so when the opertunity arrises to swap out a SCSI card and drive for an IDE drive, I do it. Maybe I'll reserve a card for you next time.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[TheAntipop]

I refuse to use SCSI because of the extreme costs that come with good adapters and hardware. I instead use ATA100 controller on my A7V which accomplishes the same thing you chumps are talkin about with no overhead costs.

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[Guest]

I'd also love my next computer to be SCSI, but the controller costs a lot, do does a good HD, the CD-ROM and the CD-RW, and I don't know anything about SCSI termination and so on. If I could get SCSI or IDE for the same money, I'd go SCSI. By the way, can you tell me the differences between the diferent types of SCSI (Ultra Wide SCSI, SCSI II and so on)?

 

[Crashman]

Chumps? If you don't have SCSI then what the h*ll are you running your scanner on, USB? LMFAO! Or don't you have one? SCSI scanners generally run 10-20X faster than USB for high resolution images! Or are you using firewire? Now THERES an extreme cost! SCSI is cheap-if you use the older stuff. Of coarse I run my Hard drive on IDE because it's cheap-ATA 100 on board. But I still have the advantages of SCSI for my CDRW and Scanner. The benefits far outweigh the $30 additional expense I paid for the CDRW, and the Scanner only cost me $50.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Crashman]

Ultra Wide is 68 oin 40MB/s, and there are newer standards (Ultra 80, Ultra 160). SCSI is the original standard and SCSI uses the same internal cables but twice as fast. Most newer SCSI cards still include 1 SCSI2 interface for running CDROMS/RW's, zip drives, tape drives, etc. SCSI and SCSI2 are 50 pin. You terminate the last device on the chain. Adaptors are available for the different standards. A classic 2940UW card can be had for about $50 if you look hard enough, but I get them for free. They include 2 Ultra Wide connections (1 internal and 1 external) and 1 SCSI2 interface (internal). Although limitted to 40MB/s, they perform about equally to the ATA100 interface because ATA100 drives typically have about a 34MB/s sustained transfer rate. 100 is only the burst rate on these drives. Newer SCSI hard drives tend to be expensive, so I use a ATA 100 drive on my onboard IDE interface, and the SCSI for other devices/secondary drives.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Guest]

What an ass. Don't call me a chump because I know what good equiptment is worth and you don't. I don't run scsi harddrives, why, because I can't afford them right now. But I do run scsi roms because THEY ARE BETTER. I got sick and tired of ruining every fifth disk I was buring. Like I said in my original post, I have never seen the buffer on my scsi burner at anything below 100%, no ide user can claim that. Btw I paid $55 for my 2940uw card, a cheap price to pay for good equiptment

No hard feelings Mr. Antipop, but please back up your statements with facts, not name calling.

Have you ever noticed that if you type ide enough times, you'll eventually type die?!

pill128

Take your pill, and get some sleep.