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[neye_eve]

Tex, dilleet, xserver disks

well, the online flamewars still go on with respect to apple's choice of IDE v. SCSI. I'm kinda partial to SCSI myself due to the reliability, speed of available drives, and some other features. Now, some of the SCSI advantages are mitigated by the independent controllers Tex mentioned, and somewhat by SATA characteristics, but for myself, I'd stick with SCSI for truly critical data. YMMV of course, and you pay extra $$$ for SCSI drives and pay an extra time cost in the configuration thereof. Here's a neat article if you're really interested in reading more about it:

http://arstechnica.com/paedia/s/scsi-1.html

neye

PS - edit - I had one of the earlier macs to go with IDE as opposed to the then standard SCSI, as I understand it. I'm not too sure about it, but my dad was really into macs and was surprised in 1994 when he found out that my newly purchased Performa 636 came with an IDE drive. No real point to this comment, just something I remembered.