IDE to SCSI converters, worthit?

[FishTankX]

I was planning to go with all SCSI, but was contemplating the burner.. then it dawned upon me.

There do exist IDE to SCSI converters.

Has anyone used one, and if so can you give me some comments?

 

[cheesehead]

It would make more sense from a performance standpoint to use a seperate IDE controller, such as the one on the motherboard. It would most likely run slower than its IDE-connected counterpart, and you would end up paying more. Moreover, it would eat up bandwith to your SCSI card.

 

[wfn]

it wont run slower in most instances and it'll give you an ability to free up your onboard p-ata. ive used those before and they work well, tho not with everything out there. for hdds if you go with a bigger brand like seagate or hitachi it should work fine.

 

[Crism]

scsi's outdated for everything except high-end servers. 10,000rpm raptors are in style now-a-days

 

[wfn]

Originally posted by: Crism
scsi's outdated for everything except high-end servers. 10,000rpm raptors are in style now-a-days

ok mr. fashion, keep telling yourself that.

 

[FishTankX]

Well, my notion was to use it so that my DVD burner and harddrive could be on the same SCSI Chain (Harddrive=15k.3 refurb) and thus talk with eachother without going through mediation of the rest of the system. Do these things work well with DVD burners?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: wfn

Originally posted by: Crism
scsi's outdated for everything except high-end servers. 10,000rpm raptors are in style now-a-days

ok mr. fashion, keep telling yourself that.

lol pwned.

SCSI is not out of date, it still reigns supreme, you cant call yourself hardcore until youve owned a SCSI drive. Raptors dont come close to competing with SCSI.

-Kevin

 

[Vegito]

I been using this for over a year now..

I got 6 of these on 2 200gb ide and 4 120gb ide... got the ides for dirt cheap.. it'll never used the full bandwidth of my u320 so I can happily chain up 6 drives or more on 1 channel.

I never tried with cd rom/dvd, i leave those to ide.. so I free up my ide channels and have 4 dvd/dvdr on 1 pc. I only use the converter because I needed more cheap storage, there isn't a 200gb scsi drive yet...

hitachi has some 300gb scsi coming out but they been saying that since april '04

 

[Vegito]

btw i just checked the website, 105 is pretty expensive, i got mine for 79, i used acard one..

http://www.acard.com/eng/product/scside/aec-7726q.html
Support command Queue for SCSI RAID card

I picked this unit because it works with RAID..

I bought mine at Mars Tech
http://www.getlaptop.com/acardprod.htm
They list as http://www.getlaptop.com/aec-7726q.htm @ 84 but if you call and do bulk like me, you get it a bit cheaper..

Think of it.. ability to chain 14+ drive per channel on each scsi controller.. yes you can do it with 3dware sata but most scsi controller has dual seperate channel.. it'll easily upgrade to 28 drives.. you'll need 3 3dware controller to do that..

 

[gba]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: wfn

Originally posted by: Crism
scsi's outdated for everything except high-end servers. 10,000rpm raptors are in style now-a-days

ok mr. fashion, keep telling yourself that.

lol pwned.

SCSI is not out of date, it still reigns supreme, you cant call yourself hardcore until youve owned a SCSI drive. Raptors dont come close to competing with SCSI.

-Kevin

I would really like to see a good head to head comparison in laymen's terms.... I have my OS on a 15,000 RPM SCSI hd it makes a huge difference.... haven't tried SATA yet