thats basicly my deal. SCSI is in the places I need performance, IDE is where I need bulk storrage. IDE is a dime a dozen they are so cheap. even SCSI is coming down in price now.
really if you get a mobo with SCSI on it, get the SCSI drives for it
The SATA Raptor is nothing special... IDE people are speaking about it like its the freaking second coming... its a drive using 6 year old technology. (10krpm spindle)... wow. From what I saw in a few "observations" (since they werent reviews), was that the Raptor would be marginally cheaper than SCSI at the same speed. It would really need to be at the current price of IDE drives to really be impressive, hell at that point I could call it the second coming
Which in any case SCSI has more technological advantages over SATA still... like Disconnect, Tag Queue'n, etc... but really all the benifits of SCSI are realized in multi drive setups. One SCSI drive on its own shows little improvement ( at same RPM/cache) over IDE counterparts.