SCSI is more mainstream in servers, however they are slowly becoming more affordable making them more popular for the high end user. SCSI has a lot to offer desktop users over IDE. Not only will data transfer rates be much faster but the average hard drive-intense application will perform much more quickly. Games like Quake III will load much faster and when installing programs from the hard drive significant speed increases will also become evident.
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