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To: L. Adam Latham who wrote (49892)	3/6/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Respond to of 186894

There are situations in which RAID systems are appropriate, and in which SCSI systems are appropriate, but for the typical desktop situation, and even for the above average desktop situation, it is my opinion that a standard IDE drive is all that is justified, coupled with reasonable backup proceedures. If buying a new drive from this point forward, I would by an Ultra DMA drive, even if the current computer system on which it would be installed might not be able to use that mode. UDMA is backwards compatible, there is little or no price premium, and drives sometimes outlive the computers in which they are installed.