Hi,

On 19 Apr 2001, at 15:29, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:

> IDE today gives not-much-worse performance with 1/5 of price

That depends on the needs. I have (for whatever reason, some of 
these are "just there" others I need from time to time) CD, CDR, 
Jaz, Zip, Scanner, Dat, MO, Tape, Floppy. I find it also practicable 
*not* to have a CD in every workstation. On my current x86 the 
15GB ATA 100 drive has one 2GB partition I use, the last months 
there were no reasons to create more space. 

If one has the need for SCSI and does not need too much capacity, 
a 4.5GB SCSI disk is not much more expensive than a ATA disk 
with comparable performance. And if someone desperately needs 
speed and can live with a maximum single disk capacity of 8GB, 
SSDs are only available f=FCr some kind of SCSI (but for such a 
person price must not be relvant)!

Then again, if capacity is needed, ATA to SCSI Raid Systems can 
hold up to 8 disks with one UWSCSI ID and can be connected to a 
SCSI Raid controller giving a total of 7TB when using 60GB disks at 
a fraction(!) of the cost of SCSI systems with the same capacity.


mike