Re: Apple's ways

[Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com>]

In article <9kj2kl$l0u$1@merope.saaf.se>,
 pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

> BTW the Mac too is now moving towards IDE harddrives.  Why?  Weren't
> the SCSI drives superior?  <evil grin>

Now moving?  Moved a few years ago once IDE speeds got up to a decent
rate and processors got to the point where they could waste a few extra 
cycles running IDE drives.

IDE's current mostly 66 & 100MB versions with 133 coming.

SCSI's at 160MB with 320MB coming...but it's expensive.  You want
performance, you have to pay for it...early on it was better for Apple 
to do SCSI because it was faster (although they didn't keep up on the 
speed over the years), but eventually IDE became a better deal.

Plus, there's always SCSI's ability to have several devices on the
chain, from 7 to 15 (or maybe more in some of the later versions, 
haven't kept up with that.)

Greg B.
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