[bigben2k]

An ever lasting question, at least with me!

I'll be getting an Asus A7N8X dlx mobo, and I've been looking at the following options, for storage:

Option 1) Get a Seagate SATA 80GB HDD, for ~$150

Option 2) Go SCSI, with a Seagate 10k6, 37 GB, along with an Adaptec 29160 controller. ~$360


The SCSI "package" comes with a 5 year warranty, and will dance circles around the poor SATA drive. It will in fact have a 66% higher transfer rate (!).

The SATA option has twice the capacity, but the warranty is only one year, unless I get the "Plus" version, which has a 3 year warranty, but has an ATA-100 interface.



Come to think of it, I think I answered my own question: I don't need the speed, especially given the 1 GB of RAM I have.