"Phred" wrote in message
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"David H. Lipman" wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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| "David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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| Go RAID 5 and SCSI and you will not have the artificial barriers
| of IDE hard disk controllers. Plus you a very reliable and very
| fast disk sub-system.
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| That's ridiculous. A $900 computer and $1500 worth of disk.
| 250GB works fine in a 4550.

Except...

You are not taking into account; the importance of the data, the
reliability
factor and the sheer speed that RAID 5 provides.

I can understand your enthusiasm for a RAID system that provides data
redundancy, but do you need to run a SCSI system to do this?

I have the impression from comments elsewhere in recent times that
modern IDE drives are perfectly adequate and SCSI is quite simply
over-priced, perhaps even over-rated, in comparison these days?

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Lots of photographers run 100's of gigs and there is nothing they can do to
keep it smaller. Digital Pro photography has been one application for RAID
systems.

Only a very elite number of IDE models have "enterprise" tags - which means
they are as close to bullet-proof as an IDE drive can be in 2003.

Enterprise drives are nearly the same cost as decent SCSI drives anyhow. It
is simply that IDE works on more standard and less expensive motherboards.

SATA is another thing to look at. SATA Raid is now making a strong
appearance.

As for the HD being more expensive than PC ...... it used to be the other
way around and back then the machines were nowhere as impressive as they are
now.