demoted scsi..

[Goosemaster]

Terrapin,

AS for scsi, it still trounces IDE, but I see your viewpoint.


The best option, which I employ myself, is to implement scsi as only your OS drive so you get to appreciate its benefits in the field of access times.
THen get a large and slower ide for storage.


Presently I have:

1 18GB quantum/Maxtor 10,000rpm 10kII ultra160
1 Adaptec 19160 ulta160 adapter
1 40GB IBM 60GXP
1 Tekram RAID card



I will change the congif to:

1 36GB quantum/Maxtor 10,000rpm 10kIII ultra160
1 Adaptec 19160 ulta160 adapter
2 40GB IBM 60GXP in RAID O
1 Tekram RAID card


These configs still trounce IDE but still cost only a little more

 

[zephyrprime]

What's with this dynamic disk stuff? Does it offer any benefit for IDE users or is it only a bug work around?

 

[TeflonMan1]

Ok guys sorry I forgot to mention that Im running Windows XP and my SCSI drive is my boot drive as well. I tried to find the dynamic disk option the way you told me but i couldnt find it.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
What's with this dynamic disk stuff? Does it offer any benefit for IDE users or is it only a bug work around?

Dynamic Disc disc is WinNT's version of Fdisk. It allows you to create volumes within a disc as opposed to partitions in DOS. Volumes allow for additional features such as RAID arrays. It is not tied to either SCSI or IDE, and has been a feature of WinNT for awhile. It's seems to be a coincidence that it is a bug fix in this situation.

 

[Sundog]

John---YGemail

 

[TeflonMan1]

Thanks alot guys I converted my drive to a dynamic disk and my read speeds were never getting over 10 mb/s now they were hitting 50 mb/s after that change. This was one of the easiest tweaks I ever did.