SCSI drives - are they worth it?

[cleanbluesky]

Hi

I am a SCOPE and Gigasampler user and I was wondering whether the extra perofrmance gain from SCSI HD would be worth it?
I have about 50gig of samples which are kept on a 70gig partition so I may have to add another HD soon. IDE is cheaper and seem satisfactory, would SCSI be worth the extra?

[firubbi]

7200Rpm IDE is fine for using 16ch gigasampler. it will be great if you have more than 1GB Ram + a faster pc
Thanks

[cleanbluesky]

I have 1.5gb ram and I am working on the faster processor. I use GS 160, and it is mostly okay. I also use Toontrack Drumkit from Hell Superior, which can take up far more resources than GS. Running them both is possible, but a little harsh.

[blazesboylan]

I haven't been keeping up on what the IDE vs SCSI bus widths are up to these days... Anyone know?

Bus width is certainly worth considering.

[garyb]

ide or sata is fine. if you're using scope, you probably don't want to load the pci bus down with additional data from scsi especially with an intel chipset, where ide and sata travel a different pipeline than pci. ide and sata can handle plenty of traffic.

[valis]

Agreed.

Scsi will typically share the 32-bit pci bus with your Creamware cards where ide/sata have dedicated controller lanes. The only place this isn't necessarily the case is with server motherboards and really its not worth the added expense (assuming the server motherboard will even have an agp/pci-express slot).

[astroman]

add the fact that 10/15k rpm drives are loud AND get really hot.
You'll have trouble cooling them in a regular PC case.
In servers those drives are mounted further inside the case with a battery of fans blowing over them.

cheers, Tom