Advice on disk purchase?

[Piete Brooks]

>> A provider is suggesting I might want to buy an Ultra-Wide disk instead of
>> an ultra (narrow) version to put on my Adaptec 2940U controller.
> The uw and ultra(narrow) versions of the disk are about the same price, and
> your drive will be obsolete sooner if you get the narrow version. 

I'd go one further and buy the LVD version -- another speed factor of two.
When the differential cost is *so* small (same price from our normal supplier),
it's always worth "future proofing" your purchases !

All LVD devices have circuitry to fall back if any device on the bus is not
LVD -- see http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/papers/ultra2.shtml

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