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To: Street Walker who wrote (1762)	7/28/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

SW., I agree with Zeus. Get a 7200 RPM IDE. The extra price for scsi will not likely be significant in your situation. If money is no object a 9 gig 10,000 RPM Seagate Cheetah is hard to beat though.... Sean BTW: Back from TATOL. Got a chance to meet Mr. Spots and see a lot of my friends from TAOTN. What a great conference...

To: Street Walker who wrote (1762)	7/31/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Anyone's thoughts on comparing SCSI to ATA? Is the extra price for gig worth it and the extra price for the scsi controller? SW, I can only tell you my conclusions. Not everyone is in my place, but every time I decide to go to SCSI (hard drives, that is) I find the EIDE drives coming up with more new bangs for the buck. Now, IF I had to do a lot of simultaneous drive accesses, which I would only do if I were a server of mucho network users, which I'm not, THEN I would wish I had split for SCSI. BUT in my case I am the major user of everything on my in-house network, so EIDE works swell for me. Also I understande it. Also, NT boots without a special driver. Also, the major advances are coming in EIDE nowadays. BUT AGAIN I've now maxed out my system in EIDE hard drives (4), so NOW I wish I had split for SCSI in the first place. But if I had, I couldn't have afforded to max out my system (which has well over 20 gigs of EIDE attached). The best advice I can give is stick to EIDE till you can't stand not to. First that horizon keeps getting pushed back, and second you will come out much cheaper in the long run. Regards, Spots