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OK, i'm looking to upgrade to SCSI, any opinions?

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but check it out. my current system is below. what i'm looking to do is get an XP processor, probably the 1900+, a new Motherboard (this is not a high priority) get another 9.2 gb 10,000 RMP SCSI U160 HD and a U160 controller ( i currently have 1 such SCSI HD).

so, what do you think, would this be worth the investment? about $450 i'm figuring.
 
Completely pointless upgrade if you ask me. At the very LEAST, wait until summer for an upgrade. Go buy a digital camera or something.
 
Yeah, I agree. Unless you can demonstrate an actual reason for getting SCSI, I just don't see the point. An IDE RAID 0 array performs about the same as a single SCSI drive (more or less, depending on whose benchmarks you believe) for half the price. I guess you've got one drive already, so it's not so bad, but if you need high capacity, it's still gonna be really expensive. Before, you could at least argue that SCSI made CD burning more effective. But with Burn-Proof, that doesn't hold up anymore. SCSI drives are also damnably loud and hot, especially the high-performance ones. Spend that money on a new monitor instead.
 
All these people are just jealous, wishing they had all-SCSI 😀

Seriously, I'd look at your needs before going head over heels. I went all-SCSI because of the tasks I do on a daily basis -- audio/video editing and the sort, which require huge data transfers and fast access.

If you're still convinced, a 29160 coupled with either a Quantum Atlas 10K III or a Seagate Cheetah X15-36LP will give you a blazingly fast experience. Just don't expect to be blown away if you aren't taxing the subsystems.
 


<< clever.

new monitor? i have a 17" LCD, mb not the best on the market, but good enough. 🙂 >>



Sorry, thought that was a 17" Dell CRT. Guess it's getting late and I'm getting a little distracted thinking about all the real work I should be doing right now. 🙂
 
SCSI is awesome, though probably not worth it. All the other systems i build, even with faster procs, don't seem to respond as smooth as my SCSI system. I would save the money for a monitor or something. Unless you have money to burn that is.
 


<< SCSI drives are also damnably loud and hot, especially the high-performance ones. >>


hmm, have you actually heard a cheetahx15 36LP running??
 
I'm going to agree with the "unless you can demonstrate the need for SCSI then don't get it" group.. What speakers/sound card do you have..?
 
I was about to go SCSI until I realized that the cost of the controller and a decent sized drive would cost over 500 bucks. For the average home user/gamer, SCSI is not worth it. You're systems specs are fine, maybe at the end of summer and upgrade would be more worth it? (although it's always hard when money is burning a hole in your pocket).
 
i'll have to agree with most of the people in this post. unless you need scsi absolutely, stick with what you have unless you were building a new system from scratch or something. even your current setup is still pretty decent. if you absolutely must have scsi, there are several ways to save a lot of money, mainly ebay. ebay sells a LOT of cards that are lvd raid scsi, but at around a price of 75-80 dollars. if you do your research on some ones made by mylex and LSI, they do not have to be run in raid mode, and usually include several channels instead of a single one, but only if you don't mind it being uw2 (80 meg/sec) instead of u160. i picked up a compaq 64 bit dual channel uw2 scsi controller from ebay for a good 50 dollars and it saved me a bundle, the only prob was i couldn't boot from it, so i have my boot partition on another ide drive and os on the scsi drive. just something to look out for. i would just keep your setup though and wait for thoroughbred to be released before upgrading
 
well, this question has been asked for the Zillionth (<---no such word but WTH) times. And you'll heard the same reply from almost ever single IDE users "Its not worth the money for everyday home users". I have been on SCSI hmmmm.. for almost 6 years and I do not regret one bit. Once you're in a all SCSI system you'll never look back to IDE trust me. I have never seen a guy with a 10,000 RPM SCSI drive goes back to IDE drives<---wonder why? Also, make sure you have enough RAM in your system so things goes extra smooth with the SCSI drives. DO NOT BUY 7,200RPM old fart drives, get at least a 10,000RPM LVD drive. Last thing, If you don't have the $$$$ money why bother going to SCSI<---this is to those budget kiddies? 😎

--SCSI
 
SCSIFreak

I got an IBM Ultrastar 9.1 gb sitting on my desk right now, not doing anything, that's why i wanna do this scsi upgrade. it is only a 7200 rpmer tho, 68P ultra 3.

i'm also buying a quantum atlas VI 9.1 HD and the Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller card for $143.00 or so.

tell me what you think about that setup?
 
Unless Maxtor just announced it, there is no Atlas VI. Do you mean IV? That is a really old drive, and not something I would bother trying to get work. Even the V is pretty slow and old by today's standards.
 
I've tryed many monitors. And i'm currently using a Sony G200, pretty expensive. I've also tryed the following:

Viewsonic
Samsung
Sylvania
Philips
Envision
cheap CompUSA

after using all these, i feel the Envision are teh absolute best values. They are usually on sale at CompUSA for pretty cheap (thats why i got it). It just blows away everything i tryed. Even next to my G300, which is more than twice the price, the colors were brilliant, i mean richer than real life! So i would really look for one of those. I also feel Viewsonic is totally overrated. I'm using a viewsonic G773 19" now and its terrible, color sucks, text isn't that sharp, ect.
 
BTW an old SCSI is usually slower than todays 60GXPs. And not to mention louder and hotter. The only thing it has advantage of is CPU utilization. If you copy most things from SCSI to SCSI, you won't feel Windows get dragged down. But if your going SCSI you have to go all out or else your waisting money when you can get IDE almost just as fast, even faster sometimes, just don't try major data transfers that eat CPU.
 
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