One Small note
Because the IDE price compared to SCSI I use on some of my server IDE HD.
Very BAD !!!
They are not reliable, and when they die all the work around cover more then
then difference between them and SCSI
Western Digital are the worse.
Eli Marmor wrote:
> Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> >
> > Hi Friends,
> >
> > does anybody have experience with 18 G IDE hard disks (IBM ...) ?
> > Especially in relation with UDMA/66 and the special IDE controller for
> > this (H* something, don't remember just now).
>
> Promise, not H* something.
>
> But you don't need it. Most of the recent motherboard have a built-in
> support for 66. Some of them are very cheap ($80-$90). Of course
> cheaper than motherboard+controller.
>
> In any case, you need a special IDE patch, but I heard that it is
> almost impossible to notice the difference between 33 and 66; These
> disks are fast more because of their RPM (7200), their cache (2MB),
> and other technologies that IBM used in them, and less because of
> their IDE interface. So in the worst case, you can disable the 66,
> and lose only 2%-3%.
>
> Don't know more details, and don't have any experience...
>
> Try http://www.storagereview.com for more details/experience.
>
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> Eli Marmor
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