twolazy
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Building a pentium pro system and I have a few options...
Motherboard is an Intel PR440FX (dual 200/256) so nothing fancy but have 2 IBM/Plextor lvd drives attached. I have a couple SCA drives but all 7.2k atm.
Is it worth it to find 15k drives or should I just use IDE with CF cards? The drives dont matter to me to be quite honest. Main will be a 30gb kingston sata ssd with a sata to ide backplane. Its more just raw performance that I am after. Prices are similar for sizes (32 gb)... on fleabay. Downside of this motherboard is cant use any addon cards with roms. It refuses to boot any rom not integrated. Another downside is SCA drives need a backplane adapter to LVD.
Stuck with built in Adaptec 160uw or Intel ATA 33. Which way would any of you go, any advice or wisdom is welcome.
Motherboard is an Intel PR440FX (dual 200/256) so nothing fancy but have 2 IBM/Plextor lvd drives attached. I have a couple SCA drives but all 7.2k atm.
Is it worth it to find 15k drives or should I just use IDE with CF cards? The drives dont matter to me to be quite honest. Main will be a 30gb kingston sata ssd with a sata to ide backplane. Its more just raw performance that I am after. Prices are similar for sizes (32 gb)... on fleabay. Downside of this motherboard is cant use any addon cards with roms. It refuses to boot any rom not integrated. Another downside is SCA drives need a backplane adapter to LVD.
Stuck with built in Adaptec 160uw or Intel ATA 33. Which way would any of you go, any advice or wisdom is welcome.
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