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Re: 2 hardware questions



> I'm about to buy Pentium (exclusively for Linux) and have 2 questions:
> 
> 1) My dealer suggests me to buy Dolphin CD (double or quadro). Is it a good
>    choice?

Why getting an unknown media while you can get panasonic/mitsumi 
for about 130$ ( double speed ) ?

> 2) I'm hesitating whether to buy SCSI HD. Say, comparing to WD IDE 1.2G, what
>    kind of performance improvement I can get with the same (by volume size) 
>    SCSI HD?

If you plan to work on single tasking environment - eide (1.2gb) 
will be perfect because of the low price of the controller but 
when it comes to multitasking operations or under networks - SCSI 
is the only choice !
.
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