tsamb. Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 Very soon I will be getting some new HDDs for a friend and installing them in his box. He is dagnam determined to get the fastest hard drives money can buy. At first I suggested 2 raptors in a RAID 0, but then I brought up the topic of SCSI drives. Now I was looking over the web and I noticed that a SCSI card and two ultra 320 drives are comparable to the raptors. So would it be better to get him a SCSI card and a couple of SCSI drives in a RAID array rather than SATA? Please share suggestions, ideas, etc... peace, -tsamb. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioActivated Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 Very soon I will be getting some new HDDs for a friend and installing them in his box. He is dagnam determined to get the fastest hard drives money can buy. At first I suggested 2 raptors in a RAID 0, but then I brought up the topic of SCSI drives. Now I was looking over the web and I noticed that a SCSI card and two ultra 320 drives are comparable to the raptors. So would it be better to get him a SCSI card and a couple of SCSI drives in a RAID array rather than SATA? Please share suggestions, ideas, etc... peace, -tsamb. 2 Cheetahs in RAID0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsamb. Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) How hot would a couple of cheatahs get? Would a single 80mm fan blowin' air in from the outside be enough to cool em? -tsamb. Edited May 19, 2004 by tsamb. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 How hot would a couple of cheatahs get? Would a single 80mm fan blowin' air in from the outside be enough to cool em? -tsamb. No you have to get HD coolers... I have 3 Cheetah's 15k RPM drives, ALL on HD coolers... One of em is only a u160 for my gaming rig along with a u160 card.. My server however has (2) u320 15k Cheetahs on RAID 0 In no way does it compare to SATA or RAID Sata for that matter... Sata is Burst, SCSI isn't.... Nothing compares to SCSI as of today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 put the seagate drives DOWN. you want a pair of atlas 15k's from maxtor (formerly quantum). they get hot but they also have built in heatsinks. and yeah that sustained transfer rate makes SCSI the king over sata. SATA: 150mbps max... usually sits around 60mbps SCSI U320: 320mbps max... all the time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 I have a question on this issue also,because I think I'm confused.Actually,I know I'm confused.Do the SCSI drives run through a PCI adapter card?And if so how do they transfer so fast?I thought there was a "speed limit " for the PCI bus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 I have a question on this issue also,because I think I'm confused.Actually,I know I'm confused.Do the SCSI drives run through a PCI adapter card?And if so how do they transfer so fast?I thought there was a "speed limit " for the PCI bus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 Thanks AYo.A little light reading. I had no idea it went this deep with the confusing standards.The guy that wrote the guide has this to say: "Hardware makers! Stop confusing people by renaming standards to avoid confusing people". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfactor Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 I have two raptor in raid 0 , nice as hell drives , if you know what to set the Raid 0 array's to , i always get around 145 mb/s on a A7n8x Dlx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 320 scsi running in raid zero on pci express can achive up to 1024MB/s not megabits but megabytes hint 1MB/s is 8 times faster than 1Mb/s in other words with a good mobo and 15k drive you can achive approx. 1GB/s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYoKoNA Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 320 scsi running in raid zero on pci express can achive up to 1024MB/s not megabits but megabytes hint 1MB/s is 8 times faster than 1Mb/sin other words with a good mobo and 15k drive you can achive approx. 1GB/s Yes I know this. My PCI-Adaptec u320 card CURRENTLY sticks off the slot because PCI express is a longer PCI slot, thus my card is ready to be installed on a PCI express Mobo as soon as they come out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) those are pci-x slots, not pci express. those boards are out there, and they are generally WAY to expensive. pci x is a 66mhz 64bit slot unlike pci's 33mhz 32bit interface. I've got the same problem in my main rig. however my xeon HAS pci-x slots on it. with a pair of 36gb 15k u320's it seems to scream next to my main rig and it's pair of 73gb 15k u320's. but then again I've put those 320's in main rig up against a pair of 36gb raptors (the 73's are slower) in raid 0. still smoked em. Edited May 19, 2004 by bigred Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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