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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: re: ESDI or SCSI or RLL?
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Date: 7 Apr 90 22:56:03 GMT
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derek@cimcor.mn.org (Derek Terveer) writes:
>MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) writes:
>> Well, most people out there seem to think that SCSI is the fastest and edsi
>> gets you more bang for the buck.
>> I saw an advertisment for Jameco: EDSI $169.95  @  15m/bits / second
>>                                   SCSI $349.96  @  10m/bits / second
>> seems like ESDI is better all the way around!
>> 
>> any comments?
>
>I still think that SCSI is the way to go (at least for the near future).  With
>careful shopping one can pick up good deals on SCSI drives and thus overcome
>the only real problem with SCSI, currently.  I picked up a 150MB 16ms SCSI drive
>for $650 fairly recently by looking in computer shopper.  I have been really
>pleased with it.
>
>SCSI may seem slower with a single drive, but it comes into its own when you
>have more than one drive because it allows simultaneous action on all drives
>hooked up to the controller; thus the more drives, the more efficient is your
>overall disk performance.  ESDI, as far as i know, is merely an "extended"
>ST506 standard and will only allow one-at-a-time access to the (up to) 2 drives
>found on a controller.
>
>derek
>-- 
>	.Signature under construction


But you can't argue against the cost effectiveness and speed of ESDI.
 
     // JCA

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