IDE CD-ROM or SCSI CD-ROM

[Mr. NoOne]

:rolleyes:
I was using an old 10X CD-ROM connected to my ATA-66 card (my new 48X CD-ROM died) & now I got hold of a Sound Blaster 16 with SCSI 8X CD-ROM....

Will I get better performance since it's a SCSI CD-ROM?

Or the fact that the IDE one was connected to the ATA-66 card & that it's 10x was a better option ?

[NDC]

SCSI CDROM drives will not be faster. However, there are some benfits.

1. You don't have to waste an IDE channel...
2. SCSI CDROM's don't rely on the CPU as much as EIDE CDROM's do since the SCSI controller does that...

[Banti]

I have been using a scsi bus for me cdrw/dvd/cdrom needs for over two years, and I love it. I do not have to worry about master/slave issues seeing as I only have hard drives on the ide bus. I can add as many cdrw/dvd/cd-rom as I please (up to 6 that is.. after that I need to install another and/or better card).

One thing that will tend to suck, manufactors do not make as many scsi drives as they use to.... Pioneer my scsi drive brand of choice stopped making dvd scsi slot drive at the 10x mark. It is not really that much cheaper to make ide over scsi, but I guess the demand is way down.


Banti

[Mr. NoOne]

Thing is right now I could use either one.

I just want to pick the one that would give me better performance.

So which one then ???
a) IDE 10x connected to ATA/66 card
b) SCSI 8x connected to SCSI-II card
c) either one (not much of a difference)

[NDC]

I'd say to go with the SCSI 8x connected to SCSI-II card for the following reasons:

1. The IDE drive you have is only 2X faster

2. You can save an IDE channel by using the SCSI.

3. The SCSI won't put a load on your processor when heavily accessed.

[cadetstimpy]

Just a thought...

IDE CDROMs do a better job of providing boot support. Good feature for system recovery if needed.

[NDC]

If your BIOS supports setting SCSI as the first boot device in the boot sequence or enable other boot device, booting from a CDROM from the SCSI CDROM drive will be no problem...

[Banti]

If you ever made a boot disk before Win98 that had ide support. it is just as simple to create a boot disk that has scsi support.


Banti

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