SCSI upgrade?

[FunkDaMonkMan]

What are the fastest hard drives? I'm pretty sure it's SCSI, but what's the fastest, and what is the most economical?

Should I buy a SCSI drive, or just stick with my 60gb IBM deskstar 7200rpm?

How much more performance would see with a SCSI drive?

If you think I shouldn't get a SCSI drive, then what upgrade would you get for about $300. (I got this as an x-mas gift)

I would love it if i could get answers from the experts

dual T-birds @ 1400mhz each
Tyan S2460 mobo
256mg of pc2100 (soon to be 512)
60gb IBM deskstar 7200rpm
Radeon 8500
Sound Blaster live! 5.1 w/ creative 5300 5.1 surround sound
19" monitor
16x DVD (didn't buy a decoder card or software...can't i use the Radeon?)
10x4x40 burner

[Shadow ÒÓ]

If your system isn't being accessed by several other work stations, you probably won't notice the difference. And if all you have is $300, you'll probably not get a good system unless you're not planning on using RAID.

However if you would like to see a nice improvement, try IDE RAID or even 10,000 rpm IDE drives.

[Jon]

I'm in agreement with Shadow.

SCSI won't give you much of a performance gain (I've seen several remark they felt SCSI lagged for them) and you'd still need to buy a SCSI adapter...hence, $300 won't really cut it.

IDE RAID does outperform single SCSI in linear use (which is what you will be doing) and is a good cost-effective solution, I swear by it and use it on nearly all my systems (link in sig). Couple of 20GB IBM 60GXP Deskstars and a Promise FastTrak sure does some smokin' (Also goes for only about $250 max after shipping).

[ken257]

Yes IDE RAID does kick! I am a big fan of it to and use it in my systems. For the price you can't beat the speed and storage capacity as compared to SCSI.

[FunkDaMonkMan]

what kind of seek times would i get w/ two 60gb deskstars set on RAID compared to just one w/o raid

i already have one 60 gig deskstar........what if i got a 20 gig..........partitioned 40 off the main.......and did raid with the two 20's.

I'm not interested in having a backup hard drive....so what RAID would I do....0?