I am in a dilemma with all the new drives. I have had a great experience with a scsi plextor 12/10/32 but with all the new 24/10/40 am wanting a new cd-rw but Plextor is not making a scsi drive. Does anyone have a comment on this dilemma, should I just go with a burn proof IDE, or hold out for the scsi?

IDE drives are fine, as long as you have the processing power for them (realistically, anything from 200MHz upwards). So you should have no problem. SCSI is great for connectivity and lower CPU utilisation, but those are the only real benefits - and IDE drives are cheaper.

I have always used SCSI and always will. As an AutoCAD and Photoshop user my drawing files have always been in the 5MB+ range and I find that using SCSI as a base (with and onboard SCSI controller on my mainboard) I still am using hard disks and CD drives bought in the early nineties and all works fine (Including R2000i) on an original 60MHz Pentium processor. The software is just starting to complain in the last couple of months (interestingly the latest intelipoint drivers play up a bit). My advice is always buy SCSI and get the fastest/biggest there is (I had never ever heard of the 512k barrier on IDE hard disks, the first HDD I bought was a 800mb one in 1991 which worked 1st time and is still working great, it cost me £750.00 for 10 years + of faultless service and if that isnt value for money in the computer industry what is? I never have to use Defrag (remember I use disk intensive s/w) and scandisk rarely. How many IDE disks would I have to have bought in that time? SCSI more expensive? Nothing is further from the truth.