I just finished reading what took me 4 hours of some worth
while reading and testing on SCSI vs. EIDE drives. If
anyone is interested visit WWW.PROREC.COM. I now have to
take everything back about SCSI being so much better than
IDE.
When I first did a comparison of My IDE and SCSI hard
drives, a SEAGATE 7200 ATA66 EIDE BARRACUDA and a SEAGATE
10K SCSI CHEETAH, I was using Windows 95 and tested both
drives for Playback using my soundcards Event "Echo
Reporter" This test showed that the EIDE could playback 42
Simultaneous tracks and the SCSI could playback 56. After
reading about DMA under Windows 98 and enabling it for EIDE
drives I redid this test. This same EIDE drive under
windows 98 with DMA enabled, tested out at 218 Tracks of
playback. The SCSI Tested out at 72. I disabled the DMA
on the EIDE and it only tested out at 81 Tracks...still
faster than the SCSI, but half as fast with DMA enabled.
At this website they also had a hard drive track test
software, which I also tested on both drives. EIDE=125
Tracks SCSI=92 Tracks. Both system test software, the SCSI
lost...and it's spinning at 10k compared to 7200rpm. I'm
having a hard time believing it, because I've always
prefered SCSI over IDE, but after reading the info at that
website and doing some tweaks and tests, I think I'm a born
again IDE user. Of course the true test will be the first
project I do recording on an EIDE drive, but I highly
recommend anyone who is an audio geek like me to read that
informative article and do the tests on your own system...I
just happen to have IDE and SCSI on the same system and was
amazed at the results.
Oh they did mention one advantage of SCSI over IDE and that
is you can put 16 devices on the SCSI buss and only use 1
IRQ, where IDE you only get 2 devices per IRQ....so I guess
I'm not too mad since I just purchased 3 Plextor SCSI Cdrs.
Standing corrected,
Brian Franz
while reading and testing on SCSI vs. EIDE drives. If
anyone is interested visit WWW.PROREC.COM. I now have to
take everything back about SCSI being so much better than
IDE.
When I first did a comparison of My IDE and SCSI hard
drives, a SEAGATE 7200 ATA66 EIDE BARRACUDA and a SEAGATE
10K SCSI CHEETAH, I was using Windows 95 and tested both
drives for Playback using my soundcards Event "Echo
Reporter" This test showed that the EIDE could playback 42
Simultaneous tracks and the SCSI could playback 56. After
reading about DMA under Windows 98 and enabling it for EIDE
drives I redid this test. This same EIDE drive under
windows 98 with DMA enabled, tested out at 218 Tracks of
playback. The SCSI Tested out at 72. I disabled the DMA
on the EIDE and it only tested out at 81 Tracks...still
faster than the SCSI, but half as fast with DMA enabled.
At this website they also had a hard drive track test
software, which I also tested on both drives. EIDE=125
Tracks SCSI=92 Tracks. Both system test software, the SCSI
lost...and it's spinning at 10k compared to 7200rpm. I'm
having a hard time believing it, because I've always
prefered SCSI over IDE, but after reading the info at that
website and doing some tweaks and tests, I think I'm a born
again IDE user. Of course the true test will be the first
project I do recording on an EIDE drive, but I highly
recommend anyone who is an audio geek like me to read that
informative article and do the tests on your own system...I
just happen to have IDE and SCSI on the same system and was
amazed at the results.
Oh they did mention one advantage of SCSI over IDE and that
is you can put 16 devices on the SCSI buss and only use 1
IRQ, where IDE you only get 2 devices per IRQ....so I guess
I'm not too mad since I just purchased 3 Plextor SCSI Cdrs.
Standing corrected,
Brian Franz