Congratulations for the professional results Rob ! :-)
Rob , we have been here before , you are right , but I am not living in USA
, but in Italy and I buy on eBay USA with credit card,
I have 3 U160 IBM 10000rpm and NO FANS at all while the box is a cheap box I
have assembled on my own with a 350W power supply ( 20$ the power supply at
any shop) and a cage costing 30$ at any shop.
IDE and SCSI when coming to the HDA (hard disk files) are the same but
different protocol implementation .... just IDE a little bit more obsolete
in facts they follow the SCSI implementations by 6 or 12 months after.
Sincerely.
Ezio
www.lucenti.com e-photography site
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Geraghty" <harper@wordweb.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:06 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images
> Ezio wrote:
> >I really cannot understand why it would be needed such a complication and
> >dependancy from the controller vendor when the SCSI hard drives cost
almost
> >the same (or 20% more max) of IDE hard drives !
>
> Ezio, I know we've been here before, but SCSI isn't a cheap option for
everyone.
> Certainly, if I was in the US and had access to the sorts of prices you
> quote from ebay, I'd use SCSI... well, there's other problems. If I
wanted
> to use a 10Krpm SCSI drive I'd also have to fit a cooling fan in my
computer
> and move house to somewhere that had air-conditioning. I simply couldn't
> run such hard drives in 30+C temperatures reliably. I can buy two 7200rpm
> IDE drives locally for about US$250, plus another US$45 for an IDE RAID
> controller. The SCSI option (in Australia) would cost me US$200 for the
> SCSI controller card, and at least US$500 for an equivalent capacity
10Krpm
> SCSI drive. Plus, the IDE drives would behave themselves more reliably
outside
> of an airconditioned office.
>
> Obscanning: on a completely different topic, I've just taken a roll of
Provia
> 100F using two L series Canon lenses. I should get back the results
tomorrow
> so I can get an idea of how much difference the lenses made in scanning
> on the LS30.
>
> Rob
>
> PS I got two more of my photos on the magazine cover. Scanned with the
LS30
> and they look great! :)
>
>
> Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
>
>
>
>
