Re: Ventilation/cooling of PCs

["Timothy Morris" <timmorris@xxxxxxx>]

As a matter of interest I just had a SCSI disk fail (yesterday). Thank
goodness for Windows NT and disk mirroring. The mirror just took over!

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 August 1999 08:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Ventilation/cooling of PCs
>
>
> I agree the price differential between SCSI & IDE has narrowed in
recent
> years, as has the performace differential, but it is still
> significant. As
> an example, I mentioned I just purchased a 17.3GB Ultra-DMA66 EIDE
drive,
> this cost me a grand total of £144 (Inc VAT & delivery) from DABS
direct,
> the cheapest SCSI drive I could find of a similar capacity came
> to well over
> £400!! Likewise, decent SCSI controller cards are a lot cheaper
> nowadays, -
> I recently bough two Adaptec PCI cards for about £55 each as I
> recall, but I
> think I can safely say that they'll _Never_ get as cheap as EIDE
> controllers: (FREE with any new motherboard!)
>
> BTW, I still think the performance of SCSI is way ahead of EIDE,
> so IF you
> can afford it, or justify the difference, I think it's worth it -
> especially
> if you have a large CD collection to rip - SCSI hardware could
> potentially
> _halve_ the time required to do it...
>
> Regards.
>
> Paul Gordon.
>
>


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