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For a variety of reasons, all of these machines are likely to have a decent
PCI SCSI controller. In some cases, it may be connected to a CD writer,
or a Zip disk. In others, to one or two scanners (flatbed and film).
All machines will be essentially single-user machines, not servers.
But these are users who will think nothing of running Photoshop in
the foreground with an FTP running in the background and maybe Netscape
lurking, while several telnet windows are open and doing things.
So the question comes up: what interface should the main disk(s) use?
Is SCSI still sufficiently better than EIDE to justify the extra price
of the drives? Do UDMA drives actually get decent transfer rates,
comparable to SCSI, these days? Is it actually better to have the disk
on an EIDE controller to balance load between it and the SCSI controller?
Is there any problem booting Windows or Linux on a SCSI-only system with
no EIDE disk? How about mixed EIDE and SCSI - can you boot from either?
A similar question for the CD-ROM (assume it's internal): should it be
EIDE/ATAPI (cheap) or SCSI?
Dave