[Eeyore]

Bret Ludwig wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Bret Ludwig wrote:
for best performance a SCSI interface and hard drive. These if the latest spec
are still superior to mainstream ATA interfaces.

What purpose would this serve ?

An audio server is quite a low spec requirement. Noisy high speed disks are the
very opposite of what's needed here.

You will be able to spend a few thousand dollars if you want and will
get a good performing machine.

You could do it for a few hundred !

Yes, but he made it clear he wanted to spend a lot of money.

That's silly.


Sears Roebuck used to offer stuff in "Good-Better-Best" lines. In
many cases all three shared the same mechanicals and the only
difference was fru-fru. But they learned that more sales were lost and
more customers agitated from "downselling" when they had a high figure
in mind than "upselling" from the low one.

There are quiet SCSI drives available

Data please ? SCSI drives are typically high rpm types and that makes for noisy
operation.


and SCSI has better performance and a longer economic half-life.

Uh ? That sounds like gobbledegook to me.


The PC industry doesn't like SCSI
because it cuts into margin, but the performance advantage is definite
and it's inherently less troublesome.

The performance difference is irrelevant to this application. It's barely even
relevant to video these days.

Graham