From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 12:43:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29470 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 12:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29449 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 12:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uOr8x-00068NC; Wed, 29 May 96 12:42 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: IDE or SCSI for home system? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:42:55 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi- Yes...I understand that SCSI drives would give me better performance, but...at home I've currently got a 1Gb IDE drive (that came with the system) and a 1.4Gb Quantum Empire (if I remember correctly) SCSI drive that I hang off my NCR 53c815 based SCSI card (along with my CDROM drive and an external Exabyte EXB-8200 tape drive). Now...the SCSI HD is acting like it's thinking about giving up the ghost (I think - on powerup it will sometimes take several tries before the "scanning for devices" phase of the FreeBSD boot sequence will find it and use it - I don't know if it's the drive going or some config thing that I could tweak somewhere...hints welcome). At any rate, I've been thinking of adding a couple Gig of disk space and looking at the prevailing (low end) prices, the 2Gb IDE drives for ~$300 look awful attractive. Are there any good reasons for spending twice as much on a SCSI drive? I figure I can put the new drive off its own IDE interface and general speed of the drive ought to be fine. Has anyone seen/posted a pros & cons list for choosing one type of drive over the other? (I'm not looking to start a discussion of the merits of programming one sort of device driver or another...just end user [with tight budget :-)] pros & cons). Thanx, Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org