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To: Paul Engel who wrote (47971)	2/17/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Yeah, I'm using a MAXTOR 8.4G Ultra (among others), with SDRAM on the m/board, and I get pretty good speed, even though I only have a P5-166 (Gateway - pentium, 166Mhz, no - MMX). I do have the dual controllers which are full ( I wish that they would handle more than 2 devices each! ), and when I run NT in mirrored mode, of course I am running out of room! I am looking at the ADAPTEC 2940W controller which has both internal and external connectors ( I think ). The problem, for me, is that the SCSI array that I want to 'play with' costs $3000 or so (CD Stack) and if I go to using SCSI drives, the 23G size, the cost really jumps! Another problem with EIDE drives is the small capacity. ( I want to do some video editing, and that requires 20Meg/minute, so 2 hrs is about 2.4G - and I have 13 tapes to do and that would require ~30G of raw space! I will have to do the project in 'lumps' to 'workaround' the problem. In case you are wondering why I need so much space! ) Any way, I want to thank you for your response, and the reason that I was trying to separate the computer complex into what's 'on' the motherboard, and what's 'on' the daughterboard would be to allow the upgrading of various 'sections' of the 'complex' as the technology advances! ( Of course, you have to have a motherboard that has jumper selectable speeds, and most do! It sure doesn't take long for the designers to get past the limits of a board! ) Anyway - thanks again! Ken