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Into Eternity
24-06-2002, 07:46 AM
I've spent all this time overclocking CPU's, GPU's, and RAM, but what about the hard drive? ATA133 is nice, but no way does it compare to a Seagate X-15 SCSI drive. The bench tests are night and day and I have yet to see a company that intigrates this interface into their chip sets. I have a dream and it is SCSI.

:D
TooMuchCoffeeMan
24-06-2002, 03:13 PM
I have a friend thats SERIOUSLY into SCSI, has been for years.
He lives in canada, and gets a lot of drives from auctions, ebay etc and resells them, e.g. ex server hardware, stuff like that.
Yes, it offers real performance increases (duh) but the additional cost it adds to new systems puts a lot of the overclocking crew off.
He does not use IDE devices at all :)

In short, I'd love to go there but its a question of economics.
Serial ATA has my attention tho, and I will be watching developments in this field closely.
Scorched
24-06-2002, 04:53 PM
I use SCSI in my main rig for the OS drive and in my server for the Tape backup unit.
Main Rig use's an Elite 1600 U160 SCSI controller with 128MB cache and backup battery with 2 Quantum Atlas III 10K 18GB drives in a Raid 0 setup.
Depending on what your using the SCSI setup for and how you set it up most people would be better of with stanard IDE drives.
lethal
25-06-2002, 03:42 PM
I believe SCSI burners are the only way to go. I've got a SCSI Plextor 12x10x32.
mird-OC
25-06-2002, 04:40 PM
Originally posted by lethal
I believe SCSI burners are the only way to go. I've got a SCSI Plextor 12x10x32.
yeah they're good but they're also pretty DAMN expensive :). they have kinda lost their lustre a little bit since the introduction of burnproof and what not.
KingJackal
25-06-2002, 05:57 PM
Originally posted by mird-OC

yeah they're good but they're also pretty DAMN expensive :). they have kinda lost their lustre a little bit since the introduction of burnproof and what not.

Tru dat.
*looks at his old 8X SCSI burner sitting on his bench*
*looks at his new 16X IDE burner with coaster protection*
:o ;)

I like SCSI - it's FAST, and it always works in every OS I throw at it. Only problem is, I can only afford older, second-hand SCSI - which ain't that much cheaper or faster than new IDE :rolleyes:.