General SCSI / IDE compatibility help needed

[USMA99]

I am purchasing a system for my company to speed up processing for an application that can read and write to different files simultaneously. I would like to use 4 SCSI hard drives to accomodate the various files. What do I need to do to ensure that I can read and write to these files simultaneously? (controller or other wise) I was also told that it might not be a good idea to boot from the SCSI drive and so I would need an additional IDE drive to boot from. If this is true, how should I approach this? Will there be conflicts, will using the drive affect my SCSI read/write operations, etc? Anything else I need to look out for? Have fund spending someone else's money!
Any help is appreciated.

 

[edfair]

Boot from SCSI. Keep IDE totally away from the system. You'll never write to them at the same time, but you'll not be able to tell it. Would put 4 identical drives in, and plan to replace all 4 when the time comes to replace 1. In fact, might buy the spares to have on site, since they might not be in manufacture when you need a replacement. Ed Fair
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