Been talkin about this alot lately with my own struggle to decide, heres what ive come up with:
Im prob going to end up buying 2-45 gig IBM 75GXPs, at about 150 (on the high side) each. They arent as fast as some of the best SCSIs, as most have pointed out, but they are VERY fast, and reliable, and COOL and QUIET. Dont discount that. Im also going to most likely purchase the Promise SuperTrak 100 for about 323. This Raid controller has a RISC CPU on board, and comes with 16 megs of ram, UGable to 164 (EDO DIMM). So you now have IDE that uses as little CPU as SCSI. The speed i see with this setup will make my little raid array, with 90 gigs of space, about as fast as the fastest SCSI out there..BY ITSELF. SCSI Raids will still beat it, but with ALOT of heat, and a HUGE amount of money. For $623 ill have 90 gigs of high speed reliable drive, youd be REALLY LUCKY to buy a single 36.4 SCSI drive for that-forget 90 gigs--and dont forget to add a fan, which will add to the noise of yer new SCSI drive (G)
I think ive made up my mind.
Rama
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