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From: talvola@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.i386
Subject: IDE vs. SCSI hard drives
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Date: 28 Aug 90 00:37:35 GMT
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Reply-To: talvola@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola)
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 I will shortly be purchasing a new hard drive, probably the Conner 200 meg
hard drive, which people have given me good reviews about.  It is available
in either IDE or SCSI, and I was wondering about the advantages of each.
I know the IDE is supposed to be faster under DOS, but then again, the SCSI
can have a tape drive hooked up later possibly, and may have better Unix
performance.  I am not even sure if IDE drives are generally supported under
Unix.  If someone could E-Mail me any suggestions about which drive to
purchase, assuming that I will probably be using DOS for about a year, then
hopefully switch to some form of Unix, I would appreciate it.  Many thanks
in advance...

-- Erik

talvola@janus.berkeley.edu