Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:42:55 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: IDE or SCSI for home system? Message-ID: <m0uOr8x-00068NC@main.statsci.com>
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Hi-
Yes...I understand that SCSI drives would give me better performance, but...at
home I've currently got a 1Gb IDE drive (that came with the system) and a
1.4Gb Quantum Empire (if I remember correctly) SCSI drive that I hang off my
NCR 53c815 based SCSI card (along with my CDROM drive and an external Exabyte
EXB-8200 tape drive). Now...the SCSI HD is acting like it's thinking about
giving up the ghost (I think - on powerup it will sometimes take several tries
before the "scanning for devices" phase of the FreeBSD boot sequence will find
it and use it - I don't know if it's the drive going or some config thing that
I could tweak somewhere...hints welcome).
At any rate, I've been thinking of adding a couple Gig of disk space and
looking at the prevailing (low end) prices, the 2Gb IDE drives for ~$300 look
awful attractive. Are there any good reasons for spending twice as much on a
SCSI drive? I figure I can put the new drive off its own IDE interface and
general speed of the drive ought to be fine. Has anyone seen/posted a pros &
cons list for choosing one type of drive over the other? (I'm not looking to
start a discussion of the merits of programming one sort of device driver or
another...just end user [with tight budget :-)] pros & cons).
Thanx,
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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