Cheap SCSI setup?

Energize · 27 Oct 2007 at 05:04

What sort of performance could I expect if I bought a cheapo Ultra 160 scsi card and some cheapo 18GB 10k drives? Thought it might be interesting to try it out. Latency would matter to me more than throughput, as thats what affects load times. I've heard that just the fact that your using a controller for hard drives means there isn't any hdd lag when burning dvds or other activies like that. So far I've found.

FUJITSU SIEMENS U160 SCSI PCI CONTROLLER S26361-F2644-L3 £16

4x Compaq Proliant 18.2GB 10K Ultra 3 SCSI £35

Energize · 27 Oct 2007 at 17:54

Doesn't pci 2.2 support 533MB/s ? Can raid be done in the os?

Energize · 27 Oct 2007 at 19:15

rpstewart said:
Yes, but only over 64bit / 66MHz slots which only tend to be found on server boards.

Is it possible to use two controller cards to achieve double the bandwidth?

Energize · 27 Oct 2007 at 21:30

Ugh PCI seems so badly designed.

Energize · 27 Oct 2007 at 23:29

Is there any other way to get better bandwidth on a normal board? Like a pci-e card or pci-e to pci-x adaptor?

Energize · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:28

Would it be possible to use 2 pci controllers, one on the pci bus, and one on the pci-e bus using an adaptor?

Energize · 28 Oct 2007 at 22:35

This is what I found on google.

http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/index.php?target=products&product_id=29855&sl=EN