helmutcheese said:
They cards are suited to mobos like some Asus server models that have a 66mhz PCI Slot instead of 33mhz.
yes and no, pci is still low latency so faster access from a quicker drive is still noticable, and 133mb/s isn't much to be laughed at, i think about the only combo that can need more than that is a 1tb hitachi raid 0 setup which benchies at around 140mb/s sustained transfer.
but in general the expense of scsi is completely unwarranted, the noise and heat also are not worth the small increases.
home users in general do not have 10's/100's/1000's of users all trying to access lots and lots of small files quickly, theres a very good reason servers have smaller capacity very very high rpm drives where noise doesn't matter. because its often suited for the purpose of multiple small file reads. at home, cpu's and gpu's aren't really limited by hard drives, you load up a game, it takes 10 seconds or 30 seconds to load the info for a level, but once thats done the hard drive isn't really involved, enough mem and a decent gpu is required. a decent raid 0 , 2/4/8 drives will almost always be faster and cheaper than alternative setups for home users where sustained transfer is in general the only thing to worry about.
the new samsung drives are, if not wrong, going to have insane platter density, which will mean all things being equal it will give insane sustained transfer and could well be the king of all drives to get for a while.
afaik hard drives are setup to only read from one platter at a time, which seems an obvious area for improvement. if you've got 2 to 5 platters and you can read from more than one at a time surely that would improve throughput hugely, or essentially raid 0 within the drive, spread the data across the platters and raid one file from 3 platters.
Muppet. SCSI card is pci so i probably won't see any differance anyway 
Would never go back to 7.2 or 10k HD's for OS and programs.
