A.3. Section 2—The Disk Drive
At present, there are two main types of drives available on the market for personal computers: IDE and SCSI (pronounced “scuzzy”). The first and most common is the IDE drive. This is the type sold with most off-the-shelf workstations. A standard computer will be able to support up to four IDE drives at a time. These drives may be hard drives, CD-ROMs, DVD drives or even tape drives. Once the maximum of four devices has been installed into the computer, no more may be added until one is removed. This and the fact that IDE drives have traditionally been slower than SCSI drives are the main limitations in using this type of device. They are however, cheaper and somewhat easier to install than SCSI drives.
SCSI devices ...
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