Aamir,

When considering a workstation setup, IDE is not even a choice, i have built workstations with more than 4GB of RAM, it really does not matter, if it is not in the cache, CPU power will not be spared if it is on an IDE channel, for any workstation setup, use SCSI, and if you are considering RAID, forget IDE, it is more CPU dependant, even the HW solutions...

SCSI isn't that expensive when you are building a workstation, IDE does not have to be a choice... And ATA100 is NOT faster than IDE66, only in bursts, and that is from cache from large cached IDE disks.... So forget ATA, go SCSI, you will not be sorry...

For servers, i recommend RAID 5 with lots of cache (128-512MB) for workstations i recommend (R)AID 0 (NO, it is not RAID, no redundancy) and a good backup solution...

SCSI is the only choice in both examples...

Patrick

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