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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Better Storage, was Better Scans

2001-11-17 by ternahan

I use SCSI hard drives now...they have been good to me. I also have my
scanners - LS2000 and Uma 2400 on a SCSI chain.
That G 4 dual processor sure sounds nice...
t

> From: Carolyn  Frayn <carolyn@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:30:19 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Better Storage, was Better Scans
> 
> Helene,
> 
> I always thought that the ultra SCSI were best for Photoshop work (the
> scratch disk reads and writes and wears down cheap hard drives), and I know
> they have a faster transfer rate.  But as I was looking into this last night
> I read on the apple site that the ultra SCSI's are also the ones to use for
> RAID configurations.  IDE (ATA) are cheap, ultra SCSI's are not.
> 
> I definately want the Ultra SCSI for photoshop, but for the RAID? I don't
> know yet... more research is in order.
> 
> 
> <http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/233/wo/4pM6
> 2v8LmGubSli6E/2.7.0.3.30.1>
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> 
>> Is your rationale for that speed or something else?
>> 
>> 
>>> I think I'll go for the IDE's for storage/ backup  and the Ultra SCSI for a
>>> photoshop scratch disk...
>>> 
> 
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