on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:15:23PM -0400, Daniel Freedman (freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > > is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome too. thanx > > everyone > > > > Edwin Lau (lauedw@waves.utoronto.ca) > > Edwin, > > Hi. Based on current bang for the buck, I'd go for a 40 Gb rather > than 10-20Gb. It seems to be the sweet spot in pricing right now. > The 10-20Gb start at 60-70, while the 40Gb start at 90. It seems > worthwhile to get 4x the capacity for the extra $20-30. As an oldtimer, pricing and capacities are stunning. The other consideration, of course, is IDE vs. SCSI. For a general-purpose single-user system, IDE is probably sufficient. However, if you're looking at a multi-user environment, heavy data I/O, or lots of multiprocessing (development, data processing, server), SCSI offers a strong performance advantage, for about twice the price. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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