SCSI Hard drive questions

[pandybear0]

alright, i was wondering about these hard drives and was thinking about getting one. well do i need a new mother board for these type of drives? my friend told me something about there is a attacthment that u can put in the PSI slot but dont know. and is it hard to put togather?
thanks,
pandy

[Target]

You won't necessarily need a new motherboard, but if you don't have a SCSI controller integrated into your mainboard, you will need to get a PCI SCSI controller card.

Generally SCSI hard disks are more expensive than standard IDE drives, so be prepared for the extra cost of both the drive and the controller card you will need.

SCSI is not terribly hard to setup, but it is different than IDE. You have to worry about things like setting the device ID's and termination of the SCSI bus.

[stroyal]

SCSI are also generaly built better than IDE, they are made for harder longer service.