HAHAHA...Plextor pulls a fast one!

[moreau]

IDE vs. SCSI? How did I end up at www.storagereview.com?

I'd try to play devil's advocate, but this is one discussion in which it is impossible not to fan the flames, regardless of what I say.

I do some side work as a systems integrator. "Normal" computers get IDE (word processing, gaming, my mom). "Workstations" get SCSI (light servers, NLE systems, CAD). Me, I choose SCSI, but mostly because I'm a "hot-rodder" . My computer is my hobby, and I like what scsi offers in performance.

Choose for yourself. Feel glad that we live in a day where IDE devices are as excellent as they are.

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Home System:
G400 DH 32MB, RR-G, Win98SE, PIII 550E @733, Asus P3B-F, 128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, lw 3.0 Promise Fasttrak66 Conversion w/2xWD136BA 7200 2MB, Adaptec AHA-29160, IBM 18ES 9.1GB Ultra SCSI, Plextor 40Max, Yamaha 8424 SCSI

[DentyCracker]

SCSI = great cpu usage + great depletion of cash. Not worth it to me at this time for my personal machine, worth it on Servers and Workstations. To be honest, I do not have many complaints with IDE at this time, except that some drives do NOT like to be associated with other drives, even some modern drives do not like other modern drives (20 GB 5400 rpm Seagate would routinely lose data of one of its partitions when 20 GB 7200 rpm IBM was its slave, don't ask). If SCSI HDs were 130% of IDE drives I would buy them wthout reservation. Alas this is not so, oh well.