SCSI Power

[OS Dragon]

If I have a SCSI hard drive(and run Windows XP), would it make any notable difference to the pc preformance/ speed? or would it only be obvious when many graphic softwares are run at the same time?

 

[Praetor]

Well it depends on the drive as well as the SCSI controller. The fancy new SCSI controllers packing 64MB cache running a 320MB link with insanely long device chains ... coupled with a nice Seagate SCSI320 drive ... that's a noticeable performance jump ... of course it'll cost a small fortune.

But seriously, IDE drives have improved a lot over the last decade and given the price difference, prolly a better choice if you've not purchased the other stuff yet. If you aleady have the SCSI stuff, I'll tentatively say yes it'll be a noticeable improvement but i need to know what im comparing