[Discussion] Selecting a hard drive

[bokeny at earthlink.net]

In <806179.89805.qm at web38811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 06/05/2007 
   at 06:35 PM, James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com> said:

>Hi Zoltan,

>You really don't need SCSI anymore. I have SCSI here
>in RAID on an old HP NetRAID card. In the future I'm
>probably going to go with SATA. IDE drives are pretty
>cheap and fast. 
<snip>
I guess I will get rid of my two SCSI drive and their controller, I am
not attached to them.  My requirements are limited, if the drive
responds today, its OK.  :-)   The amount of files I have, much over
1/2mil, are important and I referring to them on occasion.  They are
mostly  CAD drawings.  I would like to end up with only two hard drives. 
Perhaps my neighbors will not complain about brown-outs.  Also, I guess
with the mother board I have I must live with plain IDE drive.  As you
said, they are affordable.  As long as I can use DOS, I am happy, My CAD
program will not run under OS/2.  

On the other hand, I have no problem replacing the mother board if that
is the consensus.

Regards, 
Zoltan

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