on mon NUMBER sep NUMBER stephen d williams wrote to make what work i already pointed out that a single drive is comparable between ide scsi alas that s wrong both the drives are faster NUMBER NUMBER krpm vs NUMBER krpm faster seek and the eide protocol is ridiculously dumb queing disconnect i think you re wrong with recent releases i ll check this week there s also jfs and xfs none of them are production quality right now only extNUMBER and extNUMBER qualify it will take a good while a year or two before we can trust anything else scsi has got advantages still particular if it comes to off shelf high density racks check out URL have you looked inside a dual cpu NUMBERu dell three drives are easy to get in anything else would require a redesign and would in nontrivial thermal engineering issues a number of vendors are putting the promise ide hardware on the motherboard all that remains is the proper drive socket i can t think of a single major vendor who sells NUMBERu systems with hardware eide raid additionally you can get hardware ide raid as a pair of drive bays or even an ide idexNUMBER controller that can be screwed into a NUMBERu chassis i believe you that stuff can be found if one is looking for it however i wouldn t put this into production unless i ve had that system hanging in the local rack under simulated load for a half a year 