Cheetah 15K.3 Scsi drive with u160/u320 card, does it matter?

[erikiksaz]

IS there any point in buying a u320 over a u160? And is there any real reason to deviate from Adaptec controllers besides for the sake of the price? Do they just make the best, most reliable?

I was about to buy a 15k.3 and an LSI u160 card btw...

 

[ProviaFan]

No idea about the controllers (haven't tried SCSI yet myself, but am hoping to as soon as I get enough money again since I depleted my computer upgrade fund recently), but a single 15k.3 drive will not saturate a u160 SCSI bus.

 

[BigFatCow]

i just bought a seagate cheetah x15 drive the other day with a LSI u160 card and its an extremely nice setup...

this was my first scsi setup and before this i had a 40 gig 7200 rpm drive...

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: BigFatCow
i just bought a seagate cheetah x15 drive the other day with a LSI u160 card and its an extremely nice setup...

this was my first scsi setup and before this i had a 40 gig 7200 rpm drive...

Can you describe your experiences so far? Starting from the installation, bootup times, loading games/apps.

 

[bozo1]

Unless you have multiple drives (3 or more) and you are accessing them at the same time, 320 will be no faster than 160.

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Ultra 320 is for RAID and JBOD Setups. No reason for Single Drives.

 

[Pariah]

IS there any point in buying a u320 over a u160?

No, doesn't really matter how many drives you have, if you don't have a motherboard with at least 32bit 66MHz or 64bit 33MHz PCI slots, you won't even be able to saturate a U160 card.

 

[mechBgon]

In fact, Xbit Labs did some testing of the U160 and U320 variants of the X15-36LP and found that both drives actually perform faster (generally) on the U160 card in their test. Link to review/tests If they had used the same controller for both then it would have been more scientific, but whatever.