Well SCSI is faster for multidisk access. I have an IBM 7200 RPM UW
drive
with an Adaptec 2940UW controller. If I run speed tests it is not any
faster than my fujitsu 5400RPM IDE drives
But these tests are pretty much transfer speed tests not lets load the
drive down with some requests then do my speed test. The SCSI would
win there for sure.
With good UDMA support in your OS, and the fast 7200RPM ATA/66 IDE
drives SCSI to me makes less sense for the average to above average
computer user. Just look at the cost of the drives. 9.1 GB SCSI
drives are 200-300. A 30 GB ATA/66 7200 RPM IDE drive is about 200 or
so.I run WIN2K mostly as my desktop and it has great UDMA support.
I put my swap drive on my SCSI and boot the OS from the SCSI but most
everything else is off the IDEs and they fly. Linux has good UDMA
support (If a bit twitchy for some) so I'd enabled that and see how it
works out. SCSI will be much more expensive to maintain that is a for
sure.
I can say I'm not sure I'll give up my SCSI CDROMs though. For Ripping
and Burning they are MUCH faster than IDE and much kinder to CPU usage.
I can burn a cd from a cd and it uses like 5% CPU. SCSI CDROM's are
also much closer in price to their IDE counterparts. You'll give up a
little bit in speed but not as big a deal than it is with the HDs. I
picked up my plextor 32x USCSI cdrom drive for about 90.00 shipped to
my house and my Ricoh 6x4x24 SCSI burner for $115 shipped.
Good luck
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On 6/28/2000 at 5:32 PM Mike Tracy Holt scribbled:
Awesome! I've been posting about that issue for the last couple of
days
without much response. I'm specifically looking at the 29160 and the
Quantum Atlas IV, how much speed would you say you've gained using
this
setup over standard ide? I've done all the other upgrades I can think
of
(processor, ram and dsl) but I'd like to see if I can squeeze some
more out.
Thanks, Mike
Hi All,
Hope this message doesn't come out too scrambled because I'm using
Netscape mail. But I just wanted to make a comment about those who
are
having trouble installing 7.1 on Adaptec SCSI cards.
I am using an Adaptec 29160 with a Quantum Atlas IV on LUN 1, HP
CDRW
9200i on LUN 2, and Seagate Python Tape Drive on LUN 6. Everything
else is
pretty generic in a sense that I'm using Dual PII400 with some some
ram, a
IDE Maxtor Drive, and a LS-120.
When I first started tried to install Mandrake (at the time it was
7.0)
for some reason the install would go into a loop when it was detecting
PCI
devices. It didn't matter what distribution I used (Caldera, Corel,
Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSe) I couldn't get past the initial detection.
After
playing around I was able to determine that the problem was the
EXTERNAL Jaz
Drive I had connected on LUN 4 of my SCSI Card. As soon as I removed
that
external SCSI device I had no problems with the install of 7.0 and
when 7.1
was release I had the absolute cleanest and smoothest install of
Mandrake
(even my sound blaster live! value worked without any required
tweaks).
So for those of you who might be wondering if you can get a clean
install
of Mandrake 7.1 on an Adaptec 29160 it is possible. For me the
problem
turned out to be an external device attached to my SE connector.
There
could be any # of factors as to why my install worked so well. But I
have
noticed a message or two concerning the Adaptec 29160 and I can say
with
confidence it is supported with 7.1. Now if I could only get my
cd-burner
to work. . .but THATS for another posting.
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