Need help, SCSI throughput less than expected?

[imported_Kensai]

What kind of heatsink is that? Something from Arctic Cooling with the fan removed?

 

[Yuriman]

The one on my CPU is a Freezer64. I just recently got some AS5, and brought my load temps down to 37c. Keep in mind, I live in Florida. On my video card, that is a stock XP 2000+ cooler.... modified.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: Yuriman

once you go scsi you never go back

Yes you do. No way I'm paying 1500$ for a drive and 500-700$ for an adequate controller anymore.

for the desktop? using a 10-15krpm 36GB hdd with a u160 controller for a system hdd is a great investment, especially the 15k, it will pwn anything else short of a solid state drive in terms of speed and str(single drive). use a 7200rpm 400GB hdds for storage if you need more storage...

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Yes you do. No way I'm paying 1500$ for a drive and 500-700$ for an adequate controller anymore.

I bought a LSI Ultra 320 controller off ebay for $42 shipped last week. You dont need anything else.

 

[Yuriman]

So... about the hardware controller. I don't really need one, I am fine just running my games off of it, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have one. :beer:

Can you attest that those 2 you linked me to are fast enough?

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Yuriman
So... about the hardware controller. I don't really need one, I am fine just running my games off of it, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have one. :beer:

Can you attest that those 2 you linked me to are fast enough?

anything over u160 will be fine since you will be limited by the pci slot (assuming a regular 32bit pci slot) since the pci bus max in theory is ~133MB/s.