example: instead of having a 4 lane highway... you have a 20 lane highway.

SCSI usually also lets you connect more devices to an adapter than say IDE. One IDE port will support 2 devices. One SCSI port will support upto 7.

However, with all that added copper is mucho added cost. Mondo super extra cash like woah! :eek3:

There's a new kid in town called SATA. It's kinda a cross between IDE and older types of technology mixed in with some new fancy hightech stuff. It's smaller, faster, cheaper, easier to work with and more expandable in the future than both IDE and SCSI. It's still pretty new, I've been running it on this system for quite a few months now and have had absolutly no problems with it.

It was super easy to install and the cables are so much smaller and more flexable. Very nice. SATA gets mad props y0.