Advice needed from the scsi crew

[Wolfsraider]

Which scsi raid card would be better?

LSI megaraid enterprise 1600 or a 21320-R

I have a lsi megaraid 1600 elite that I would like to replace.

My system specs.

Asus ncch-dl 64 bit slot
2 x Xeon
pqqi 1 gig ram
Nocona 2.8 64 bit 1 meg cache
x800 pro
audigy 2 zs
cooler master stacker case
File / web Server and photoshop, dreamweaver, apache, php, mysql, zend optimizer, dual boot win xp and suse 9.3.

Thank you.

 

[Peter]

The 21320-R is using an advanced version of LSI's normal dual-channel SCSI processor chip. While this is far superior to any CPU-software driven RAID, it is a far cry from the MegaRAID series adapters. These use one to several SCSI processor chips, and another dedicated RISC processor plus a lot of RAM to orchestrate them.

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Which scsi raid card would be better?

LSI megaraid enterprise 1600 or a 21320-R

I have a lsi megaraid 1600 elite that I would like to replace.

My system specs.

Asus ncch-dl 64 bit slot
2 x Xeon
pqqi 1 gig ram
Nocona 2.8 64 bit 1 meg cache
x800 pro
audigy 2 zs
cooler master stacker case
File / web Server and photoshop, dreamweaver, apache, php, mysql, zend optimizer, dual boot win xp and suse 9.3.

Thank you.

The only difference between the enterprise and the elite is the number of channels. If you need more external channels then I guess get it, otherwise I don't see a point in upgrading. There would be absolutely no performance benefit.