If you know SCSI

[fulltilt]

scsi is for servers. U dont' need that kind of power for poker. If u want, the best thing to go for is western digital raptors set up in raid 0. That is fast and much cheaper and more compatibale that scsi. raptors run around 130 i believe a piece and u get two, set up raid 0.

[Terry]

/sigh

I know I don’t “need” the power. That is not the question. The question is “Will a SCSI drive significantly reduce the lag when PT accesses the database?”

I am not concerned with cost, only with performance. From my past few hours of research, it appears that a computer boots twice as fast and programs open twice as fast just because of the drive speed. It also appears that the random seek time of SCSI drives is less than half of that of IDE – and it seems to me that that seek time is the actual bottleneck in database access.

Has anyone here used a SCSI drive?

BTW, from personal experience, I can tell you that Raid 0 makes very little difference even if it is set up correctly, using two channels.