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Gooseberry Clock:
And what makes you think that SCSI drives have less fragmentation than IDE drives? They both work in exactly the same way, they just communicate in different ways.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

psyjax:

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
And what makes you think that SCSI drives have less fragmentation than IDE drives? They both work in exactly the same way, they just communicate in different ways.
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Ultra wide SCSI drives spin at higher speeds and can write more data at a time than IDE drives.

choasforages:
umm, mostly quailtuty of hardware,
umm ide is manly used is shity x86 computers. ide, hmmpf, it only can communicate with one device at a time, less then ideal for a multitasking os and or raid, now scsi will allow you write all acroos the bus , meaning it is better for multitasking environments. and scsi hardware is built to last and to have decent uptime.

/* one hates x86 with a passion */

ravuya:
9500 models are widely used in the industry because they have a shitload of PCI slots (6, to be exact) and support SCSI internally.

Put an UltraWide SCSI PCI card in there and a video card that supports AV connections, drop a 15k RPM IBM drive in there and you're golden.

astralkoala:
thanks for the responses.  a couple of more questions.

Do these look like good used mac prices (no monitor of course)?

http://www.bob-weber.com/z/prices/computers.html#66


which is a better buy at $279, a g4 upgrade card (400 Mhz) or a G3 upgrade (500 mhz)?

what is the best place to buy upgrade cards?

assuming a take the same harddrive, ram, and video card from my pc and put it into this new mac, what what kind of comparative editing performance will you get in 900mhz t-bird athlon v. 400mhz g4 v. 500 mhz G3.  
Thanks, Randolph

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