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I think I can add a little something about IDE.
I am currently running a little 20g quantum fireball as my os hd. I also have a raid 0 of 2 quantum fireball 20g as my game disk. So gaem that do constant access and things like these are running perfectly fine, and since it's not on the os hd, i can do multiple things on the raid array without reducing the perofrmance of my os.
But I also have an older scsi hardware raid array of 3 really old seagate 9.1g (full height) and even if the disk are slower then my ide array, i can send it 2 or 3 copy and the ssame time, without any slow down. Scsi has it's benefit, but it's costy, and using multiple fast IDE drive ofset this benefit but using a 15k drive, i might change my vision of things (i do have the u160 raid controller in the form of a 39160 on board of my tk7). So until then, i will still run IDE :P
Myself, I will build a raid-0 array of 2 baracuda 5 serial ata 80g 8megs(as soon as they arrive on the market and seagate set their waranty at 3 years as stated on the spec sheet) for data and games, and move my os on the raid-0 on the little promise.
