SCSI Hard Drives.

[imported_script]

I have a few questions about scsi hard drives. First of all I want to use the 10000RPM or 15000rpm drive for a ?C? drive. The object is to speed up windows a bit. And if there is any application or game that needs a little boost I would put it on there as well. I noticed that allot of people that do this do it for games that are intense on resources which I don?t imagine I will be playing these types of games. So am I barking up the wrong tree with this particular set up or will it help to speed up windows and Microsoft office?

Now my second question.

I cant decide which card to get. so my question is this. Will a regular cheap ultra160 do the job?? I know people usually go with the 320 but since i am not linking more than one scsi drive together i will only see the speed as fast as the PCI port can deliver it. So I guess my question is, how many mb/sec is a pci slot? Am i thinking about all of this correctly or am I all off?

 

[nageov3t]

I've always felt that scsi is overrated for a home pc; unless you're running some intense programs, I can't see even an above average user noticing a difference in speed between sata and scsi... plus, scsi hard drives make a monstrous amount of noise. heh.

 

[Sunner]

Not all SCSI drives are that noisy these days, a Cheetah 15K.3 isn't all that much louder than many 7200 RPM IDE drives.
And most users would definitely notice a difference in speed.

A Raptor would be a much better solution for a desktop however.

 

[windraider]

speaking as someone that does have a SCSI drive as my main boot drive, it's probably not worth it for your situation. i'm running a Maxtor Atlas 10K V 36 GB drive, running win2K and i boot maybe 10 seconds faster than on my WD caviar 80 GB drive. games do load a bit faster, but not too noticably. (i play farcry, unreal2k4, etc, those "intense" games you were talking about)
the main benefits you'll get from SCSI in a single user setup is reliability and for a single drive setup only marginally better speeds on loading. down side being SCSI drives are a lot more expensive per GB, you need a host adaptor card, a SCSI cable and a terminator. of course if you're even looking at SCSI gear you should already know all that, but i just say it to be repetitive.

personally i think you are barking up the wrong tree to use a SCSI boot drive to speed up windows/games if you're not playing anything really intensive.

to answer you second question, if you are only planning on using a single drive, and no RAID, a U160 drive will do you fine, as there are no single drives that can fill that much bandwidth. if you were going multiple drives, and more especially, RAID, then i would reccommend going for the U320's.
anyway, hope this helps you some.
Cheers

 

[Carbonadium4]

I got a fully blown scsi system at home. I do a lot of video editing, file transfer, partial data recovery, etc. I think raptor is good enough for ya.. unless you're planning to spend major cash.. Cost of decent card is very expensive..

My rig consist of 1 LSI Logic Megaraid 1600 2 channel w/128mb cache.
4 10K Quantum atlas 73gb in raid 5 mode. 3 + 1 HS
3 120GB SCSI
+ misc ide drives

If your data is important, then you'll need some kind of raid or run backups. I choose raid 5 + 1 hs incase 1 drive dies, it'll rebuild it self. I use that as boot drive. I ran sandra and it said my 10k scsi was slower than some of the 7200 ide drives.. ill post pics when i get home