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Date:      Thu, 29 May 97 23:17:59 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com>
To:        "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   IDE or Ultra SCSI
Message-ID:  <199705300343.XAA01738@federation.addy.com>

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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?




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