SCSI Disks
If all this IDE nonsense is something you can afford to bypass, or if you will be attaching external disks to your system, the best-supported alternative is SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface, popularly pronounced “scuzzy”).
SCSI disks operate over a variety of interfaces that range in speed from the earliest and slowest (5MBps) to modern iterations such as Ultra320 SCSI that can transfer data effortlessly at 320MBps. Although the aggrandizing naming conventions for these interfaces (Fast SCSI, Wide SCSI, Fast Wide SCSI, Wide Ultra SCSI, and so on) border on self-parody, SCSI itself is relatively well behaved and predictable when it comes to its capabilities. Each successive standard is twice as fast as the previous, and although ...
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