RE: How's the Turbo IDE?

[bpvh@shell1.msn.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

miller@biologym54.lan.nrc.ca (Miller, Harvey) wrote:

>        I just bought an Apple IIgs and, after reading the Apple
>Faq (thank you, Dan DeMaggio!) I'm starting to think that it needs
>a hard drive. I'm intrigued by the Turbo IDE card. (This card
>allows IBM style hard disks to be used on the Appe IIe or IIgs.)
>But I'm nervous about service from a German-based company. So, I'd
>like some opinions from people using them;
>
>4) Is it notably faster than a comparable Apple high-speed SCSI
>card + drive system (my second choice)?

While I can understand why the Apple HS SCSI would be your second
choice, I do not understand why a SCSI system would be a second
choice.  Get a RamFAST SCSI card and an external SCSI drive and be
done with it.

Unless you have IDE hard drives lying around idle, the price
difference between IDE and SCSI drives is so little that, for those
of us in North America, buying a Turbo IDE card is pretty senseless.