Would it be completely rediculous?

[Sentinel]

to have a SCSI setup in your main computer?

Say have 2 10000 RPM SCSI drives and one standard 7200 drive in your regular IDE port

 

[Matthias99]

Not if you needed the performance... but for most people, yes, high-speed SCSI drives are drastic overkill.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Not if you needed the performance... but for most people, yes, high-speed SCSI drives are drastic overkill.

damn as I go off to downgrade my hdds now! 😀

 

[Sentinel]

lol ok i was just thinking because I can get some parts cheap

plus i was thinking of using one of my machines as a server

 

[dullard]

Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: dullard
Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

you left out Seagates 15k.3 drives! and yes, I do run scsi on my desktop.

 

[milesawilson]

Of course you'll want a nice Adaptec SCSI controller, and that'll set you back a few bucks. And a hot swap backplane really rounds out a server...

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: dullard
Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

you left out Seagates 15k.3 drives! and yes, I do run scsi on my desktop.

 

[Sentinel]

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: dullard
Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

you left out Seagates 15k.3 drives! and yes, I do run scsi on my desktop.

How is that Seagate?

 

[Big Lar]

Originally posted by: Sentinel

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: dullard
Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

you left out Seagates 15k.3 drives! and yes, I do run scsi on my desktop.

How is that Seagate?

That Seagate runs just fine, and is quiet and not real hot at all.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: Big Lar

Originally posted by: Sentinel

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: dullard
Depends on the user and on the drive of course. But most cheap 10K SCSI drives are slower than new fast ATA drives for home use. Thus your "cheap" investment may actually be a downgrade.

If you want fast, get a 74 GB Raptor, a 15k Maxtor Atlas, or a 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

you left out Seagates 15k.3 drives! and yes, I do run scsi on my desktop.

How is that Seagate?

That Seagate runs just fine, and is quiet and not real hot at all.

yup I agree but I'm now anxiously waiting the arrival of my new 15k Fujitsu MAS drive.

 

[Sentinel]

what SCSI controllers do you guys use? bootable?

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: milesawilson
Of course you'll want a nice Adaptec SCSI controller, and that'll set you back a few bucks. And a hot swap backplane really rounds out a server...

No, A nice LSILogic Megaraid 32-2 would be nice....... And you don;t need a backplane. Go raid 5 and just have a drive laying around as a spare if you are that rich, or go without as I do, and live with raid0 and a tape backup.

 

[jose]

Nope, I love scsi. I like the quick access time, everything flies... The only reason i have sata is because 140gigs(74g raptors) of scsi is very expensive...
And the hardly ever break, I have to retire my working drives due to space requirements. I have a 2g, 4.5g, 3 - 9g, 4 - 18g, 7 - 36g hd's, I only use the 18g & 36g drives.
Nowadays scsi is dirt cheap, I paid $1100 for a 4.5 Atlas when they first came out, now you can get a 36g 10k4 for $122 ... That's basically giving them away.. 😉


Regards,
Jose

 

[thorin]

Not any sillier then having a 64bit CPU or dual CPUs or 4GB of RAM or multiple TBs of disk space.

Thorin

 

[Sentinel]

after doing some research, im good to go.

 

[Big Lar]

Originally posted by: Sentinel
would this be too old and obsolete to work?
ebay

I am not familiar with that particular card, but U160 is fine for a controller.

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: milesawilson
Of course you'll want a nice Adaptec SCSI controller, and that'll set you back a few bucks. And a hot swap backplane really rounds out a server...

as others have pointed out, LSI logic is a very viable alternative to adaptec.

hey big lar - hows it going? i remember you from the good old HWC forums.

 

[sharkeeper]

If you have to ask such a question, then yes, it is overkill...

Cheers!