[Discussion] Selecting a hard drive

[bokeny at earthlink.net]

In <courier.4666C038.00003FA3 at mail.abiliba.net>, on 06/06/2007 
   at 08:11 AM, "Douglas Clark" <clark454 at comcast.net> said:

>>On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:14:26 -0400, bokeny at earthlink.net wrote:
>>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.  :-)  

>Zoltan,

>I still use SCSI because of speed, and because it is so backwards
>compatable.  However, I have built ECS machines with the Western
>Digitial 10,000 RPM SATA  Raptor drive; and they are very fast and work
>very well. There is now a 74MB and  a 158MB version. It is pricey
>compared to regular IDE but in my opinion the speed  is worth it.

>BTW - SATA stands for serial ATA.

Thank you for the information, if I replace my mother board, I will be
considering SATA drive.

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Zoltan Bokeny 
bokeny at earthlink dot net
Fayetteville, North Carolina

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