Additional Hard drive

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Lectrician

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I currently have a computer with an IDE drive and a SCSI drive.

The SCSI is the boot drive with the OS On it, and the IDE is plugged into the primary port, but used as a drive for all my documents, shares, music etc.

I want to add a third drive which will be used to back up my drive with documents/music etc.

Am I best to get an IDE or SCSI in this instance?

Thanks.
 
If you need a lot of storage you'll want IDE. A large capacity SCSI drive costs a pretty penny (a 300GB SCSI will run ~$600).
 
Yes, SCSI is not the way to go.. IDE would be better, or even SATA if your cmoputer supports it. Check EBAY if there are any SCSI hdds that are cheaper than IDE>
 
Thanks.

So for price, go for IDE.

Any other pro/cons?

The machine will be copying from the IDE to the new drive, so is it better to copy from IDE to IDE or is there no difference either way? I am thinking speed I suppose?

SATA is not supported - machine is a little too old for that.
 
Well SCSI is faster but it'll be limited by the IDE drive anyway so the speed difference will be negligible.
 
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