From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 29 20:43:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26172 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 20:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26166 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 20:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freyes.dh.i-2000.com (slip166-72-219-147.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.219.147]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01738 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 23:43:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199705300343.XAA01738@federation.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Thu, 29 May 97 23:17:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.91 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: IDE or Ultra SCSI Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been agonizing for a few days trying to decide whether to get IDE or Ultra SCSI. Basically the situation is: I DO NOT like dealing with hardware and the company I am planning to order only offers Ultra SCSI or Ultra Wide (adaptec 2940U or 2940UW). If I get the CD rom and the HD on the two separate channels of the IDE controller will it still be much slower than Ultra SCSI? I have an understaing of the differences between IDE and SCSI (partly from magazines and from http://sysdoc.pair.com), but that doesn't really tell me much in terms of wether I will actually see a noticeable difference. The computer is going to be: 64MB 10ns SDRAM DIMMs Cyrix P200+ The difference in price betwen IDE and Ultra is about $700. Is it worth it?