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The huge storage space coming, of course, from IDE. Of course you
could have sacked the mucho-expensive SCSI-2 card and horrendously
expensive SCSI-2 hard-disk and got three IDE hard disks of double the
size for the same price, but then that would be too sensible.

SCSI has it's place and is good where you _need_ to have it (mainly
for low CPU occupancy, HD intensive apps or where adding daisy-chained
devices is beneficial, but for loading GPL it's daft.

He also wastes a truckload of money when he can buy a couple of huge
IDE drives from the start.

Cheers!
John

Eh? In what way does that relate to getting a 37Gb IDE now (18m) or a
SCSI of half-the size (9m). In both cases you get it now. Strange
attempt at an analogy...

I find it much harder to pay more money for less, especially when the
"faster" is unnoticable. I have a couple of 10Gb EIDE in my system and
I've never thought "I really wish this Excel spreadsheet would load
more quickly". 2s to load rather than 2.5s is _really_ not worth all
that extra cash - save the money and buy a better processor, graphics
card or something you'll notice - a couple of bottles of 1994 Grange
would be a better investment.

Cheers!
John

Yes, but if someone is daft enough to do that sort of thing then they
should be, well, buying a Dell. I've built hundreds of systems over
the years and I've never even come close to doing anything like that.

Cheers!
John

The opposite, I think.  The faster the processor, the worse
waiting for the disk feels.

False; the fastest drives are still SCSI.  Hop on over to
www.storagereview.com and compare benchmark numbers between
the fastest IDE and SCSI drives.  This has more to do with
10000 vs. 7200 RPM as it does with SCSI vs. IDE interfaces.

Absolutely.  As much as I'd like a 10000 RPM SCSI drive, I
just can't justify the cost.

Agreed, but it's a lot of work if you don't already know
what you're doing.  But if you don't want to build your
own, don't settle for a company that won't use the components
of your choice.

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