SCSI anyone?

[Chris L.[_2_]]

Searching / googling for "SCSI" on this same newsgroup I found quite a
bit of "horror stories" of users who in a nutshell say "It worked fine
on W98 / W2000 but it's slow on XP".

Since I'm thinking of buying a SCSI drive, I'd like to hear "happy
stories" (if any) of users who are successfully using this technology,
as well as recommendations, tips or tricks. There's just too many
flavors of SCSI (ultra, wide, fast, double, 68 pins, 80 pins, etc,
thanks wikipedia) and I'm too confused. So, what are you using with
XP? What does work reasonably, w/o being too expensive? ($400=too
expensive)

BTW I'm considering a 10000 RPM disk, would this be too noisy for a
desktop? Anyone using such config?

Hoping I'm not asking off-topic questions,
Thanks in advance
C.

[Lil' Dave]

"Chris L." > wrote in message
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> Searching / googling for "SCSI" on this same newsgroup I found quite a
> bit of "horror stories" of users who in a nutshell say "It worked fine
> on W98 / W2000 but it's slow on XP".
>
> Since I'm thinking of buying a SCSI drive, I'd like to hear "happy
> stories" (if any) of users who are successfully using this technology,
> as well as recommendations, tips or tricks. There's just too many
> flavors of SCSI (ultra, wide, fast, double, 68 pins, 80 pins, etc,
> thanks wikipedia) and I'm too confused. So, what are you using with
> XP? What does work reasonably, w/o being too expensive? ($400=too
> expensive)
>
> BTW I'm considering a 10000 RPM disk, would this be too noisy for a
> desktop? Anyone using such config?
>
> Hoping I'm not asking off-topic questions,
> Thanks in advance
> C.
>

Seems more like a hardware question. There is a hardware group for
windowsxp on the ms news server.

I stopped using buying scsi many years ago for hard drives. Way too
expensive as you pointed out. Nice thing about scsi is the PC can access
more than one drive at time on the same scsi bus. Scsi CDroms and scanners
are bullet-proof, at least the ones I've owned. Most of the scanners I've
ever had were wishy-washy, interfered with the system and so forth until
getting the scsi version.

Granite digital (scsipro.com) used to be top of the heap in scsi knowledge.
Gone by the wayside. You might try adaptec.com for some more
self-schooling.
Dave