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SCSI vs. IDE which is better?
TOK:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on December 31, 2007, 07:35:01 pm ---I'm not at all concerned about speed. What on God's green earth would I want to spend hundreds & hundreds of dollars on speedy drives to run a MAME cab for?? I got a line on a couple of SCSI drives and a motherboard with an integrated SCSI controller all for under $30.
The main reasons I'm thinking about this is 1: cost, which will be minimal, 2: the fact that I've never taken the time to learn anything about SCSI, and 3: Why not? I realize it's a dead-end standard but I'm really starting to like this old stuff. I'm probably the only S.O.B. on this board thats actually going backwards when it comes to hardware. I've lately been scouring the local Goodwill's & Salvation Army stores on the look out for 386's, 486's and the like... ;D
I appreciate all the opinions tho ;)
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My opinion is that IDE is better because its more common. I built the PC's for all of my MAME cabs with mostly left over hardware, and all the MB's already had IDE and I had old drives around from previous upgrades. Since they're a lot of older hardware, I don't want to go scouring ebay for some screwball part when something goes wrong.
My experience is that going cheap is never actually cheap. It either costs you in wasted time or unexpected expenses.
IG-88:
I can see what you are saying but part of the fun for me is exactly that, scouring ebay for that right part. And as far as wasted time, it's a hobby therefore time doesn't "cost" me anything. Whatever I am doing if it's related to my hobby it's not wasted time. :P
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: IG-88 on January 01, 2008, 10:43:29 am ---And as far as wasted time, it's a hobby therefore time doesn't "cost" me anything. Whatever I am doing if it's related to my hobby it's not wasted time. :P
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Says the man who has never battled to configure a cheap SCSI system .... :P
divemaster127:
Each to his own but after eide cameout, sata etc, I swore I would NEVER touch a scsi again nothing but a headache, you can get a new 160 gig sata drive for $50.00 & prob cheaper used on ebay
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on January 01, 2008, 11:41:15 am ---Each to his own but after eide cameout, sata etc, I swore I would NEVER touch a scsi again nothing but a headache, you can get a new 160 gig sata drive for $50.00 & prob cheaper used on ebay
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I have at least a couple of working (last I checked) SCSI cards/drives lying around, so the cost to me would be free ... well below IG-88's $30 and I will choose to buy a cheap IDE or SATA drive for use in a MAME box every time.