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Tacit wrote:
In article <Kpkee.23327$>,
"Pepe" wrote:
What HDD is best for Photo editing?
SCSI or IDE?
Depends. For photo editing, you want the largest and fastest hard drive you can afford.
Large, high-performance SCSI drives are best, if you can afford the drive and high-bandwidth, high-performance SCSI card to go with them. Midrange and lower SCSI drives offer no real performance benefits over fast IDE hard drives.
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I’ve built a bunch of SCSI desktops (and servers) over the years.
There was a time when SCSI was indicated for an all-out workstation but I think that is no longer the case, for a few reasons.
SCSI disks are optimized for reading random small blocks of data from many simultaneous processing threads. Desktop applications typically read or write entire files from start to end from from a small number of threds.
Disk have gotten so cheap that you can have two or three disks to spread the IO at a fraction of the cost, if appropriate.
SATA eliminates most of the shortcommings of EIDE cables and controllers.
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