IDE vs. SCSI hard drives

Erik Talvola talvola at danube.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Aug 28 10:37:35 AEST 1990


 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 at janus.berkeley.edu



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