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Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 26 May 2000 16:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
> > 36gb hd. $540 versus the $160 or so I paid for my ATA66 drive. To give me,
> > as a gamer, probably no measurable performance increase. That $400+ will be
> > better spent on a GeForce 2 or maybe towards a 21" monitor.
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> Probably true for gamers, and certainly for someone who just wants to browse
> the web / do office stuff. People just shouldn't say that IDE performs as
> well as SCSI without some serious clarification. It reminds me of a computer
> expert friend of my dad's who told me when I was in jr. high that I didn't
> really need the power of a 286. :)
Ok, I'll be a little clearer. For the vast majority of people, and that's
including ME, and I own more computers that I use for more purposes than
probably 99% of the computer owning population - everything from gaming to web
serving to mp3 playing to whatever, the performance difference that SCSI would
offer over IDE for MOST tasks is not worth the premium price.
I make a lot more money this year than I did last year. Spending an extra
$500-$1000 on this latest new computer wouldn't have mattered much to me.
Speedfreak that I am, geek that I am, hardware fool that I am, I couldn't
justify the expense. And I would go so far as to say that most people who
_aren't_ doing compiling or video or intensive graphics stuff can't really
justify the expense either, not for a personal machine to sit in front of and
use.
And I'm writing this on my work machine - a P3-450 with 256 megs of ram, a
2940U2W with 2 7200rpm IBM LVD SCSI drives in it, in addition to the 27 gig
ATA66 drive it came with. I slapped the controller and drives in it from
another machine (and most importantly, I didn't _pay_ for them, work did)
primarily because I copy a lot of gigabyte files back and forth from my
machine to various servers. For other things, these drives and that
controller would have been a _waste_ of money. :)
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| (...) Probably true for gamers, and certainly for someone who just wants to browse the web / do office stuff. People just shouldn't say that IDE performs as well as SCSI without some serious clarification. It reminds me of a computer expert friend (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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