What Mobo that have onboard SCSI?

[pecel]

What Mobo that have onboard SCSI?

Brand and type.
Any experience?
Which one is better? Onboard SCSI or PCI Card SCSI?

Thanks.

 

[Adul]

MSI Master MB have onboard SCSI. Tyan has a few of them has well.

The advantagce, it saves on the cost of buying a seperate card, and free's up a pci slot.

 

[pecel]

BUMP!!

C'mon
need more opinion and answer here

 

[CocaCola5]

I think the practice is, the OS drive is put on the onboar scsi and the storage or RAID Array goes on the raid card, where it doesn't get in the way of the OS.

 

[Shagga]

To be honest I would never buy a Mobo with onboard SCSI again. If you upgrade quite often, be prepared to have to spend a large amount of £££ on yet another mobo you might upgrade in the near future. I would always buy a separate SCSI card. Once bitten twice shy as they say.

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[Colt45]

I agree. if you upgrade often, you're better off buying a quality card, and moving it along with your upgrades.

 

[mastertech01]

The problem I find with onboard SCSI is that it is usually dual channel 68 pin with no 50 pin interface. So you need to get adaptors to run your CD drives or use a separate controller card anyway. And if you use Zip, Jaz and scanner external there is no external port, so you need a controller card for them. Then if you have a raid controller all the sudden you have a lot of SCSI controllers.. NO? In my case on the current board I have one channel with adaptors for my CDroms, one channel for my spare storage drives, a raid controller for the raid array, a controller card for the zip, jaz, and scanner. If you get onboard SCSI make sure it has lots of PCI slots or you dont have a ton of different SCSI stuff. The primary reason I got it was for all the other onboard stuff that also came on the board. In any case you will need plenty of PCI slots if you run a full workstation environment.

 

[Peter]

To my experience, SCSI controllers usually last MUCH longer than mainboards - what if you decide to swap mainboards next year? U160 SCSI will still be a good technology then ...

So get a normal mainboard and a neat dual channel SCSI controller like Tekram's 390U3W. That way you get one fast U160 channel for HDDs and tapes, plus one legacy UW/U channel for your other peripherals.

The other drawback of onboard SCSI is that it usually doesn't come with all the cables and slot brackets you'll need, and these add quite a lot of cost.

That said, I've seen a couple of really good bargain offers on the K7Master-S board. OK, it's an old chipset, but if you're sure you'll never upgrade that box after building it, then it's worth thinking about.

regards, Peter