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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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