SCSI HD for performance? I wouldn't advise that. The regular SCSI drives are no faster than their IDE counterparts. They are more reliable (a 5 yr guarantee is quite common for SCSI, 1 year is common for IDE). And they're three times as expensive as their IDE counterparts. You'd also need a SCSI controller, plugged into a PCI slot, and the PCI bus then becomes the bottleneck. If you want a fast SCSI controller, you'd also need a server mainboard with a PCI-X (not PCI Express!) bus. Very expensive. I haven't seen PCI Express SCSI controllers yet. The really fast SCSI drives (Seagate Cheetah) are even more expensive. If you want a FAST drive, go for a Western Digital Raptor. 10,000 RPM, 3 yr guarantee, SATA150, so it can be installed on any recent PC. Sort of a "poor mans SCSI" I've got two 73 GB Raptors in my newest rig, and they are blazingly fast indeed.

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