George Fliger wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> Nothing bad will happen except that the server will be slower
 MB> with IDE.
 GF> Absolutely correct.  Thank you for extending my original
 GF> thought.  I personally don't give my clients the option to
 GF> use IDE in their servers. Every client in the past that I
 GF> gave that option to, before changing my personal policy,
 GF> complained loudly when their server's performance wasn't
 GF> what they expected -- even though I explained this in
 GF> detail! Their response, "Why didn't you try harder to talk
 GF> me out of it?"  You just can't win sometimes. 
We never had that problem.  Anyone who cared about the cost difference 
between IDE and SCSI couldn't afford us. :-)  Even in the old days, we used 
to use ESDI drives in NetWare file servers for the speed.  My PC networking 
days go back to truly ancient kludges such as the Corvus Omninet -- remember 
those?
 GF> You should have seen those older clients REALLY scream when
 GF> they insisted on adding a SECOND IDE drive to the server! 
 GF> You KNOW what kind of a performance hit they took then.
Yes, that's a clear mistake to do.
 
-- Mike
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