2. SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 have 8 bit data bus, while ATA have 16 bit data bus.
3. ATA got disk cache built in as well.
4. Some low end of SCSI host card is only 8 Bit card.
Compare by yourself.
Leonard
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard
> > disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI.
>
> For real work patterns SCSI tends to be faster than IDE. Also for high
> end devices SCSI is wonderful. Most of my smaller boxes are IDE- its just
> not worth the price difference
>
>
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