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hellarda

hellarda

hellarda

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hey :)

I just bought one of these arrays of the bay for a quid ( :p ) I will be using it mainly for testing and trying to use different technologies, it comes with an ultra320 SCSI interface

So I assume I am going to need an ultra320 scsi card for my pc, which is where I want to use the array. I do have a spare ultra160 external connector on the back of one of my servers so i could use that if I had to but, that would limit the transfer to 160MB/s no?

I have had a look around ebay and can only see PCI-X ultra320 cards :/ and the only pci-e one i found was £119! :eek: bit much to spend on testing :/

So my questions are:

Can you get cheaper PCI-E Ultra320 SCSI cards?
Can you get PCI Ultra320 SCSI cards?
I have read somewhere that you can use PCI-X cards in PCI slots, is this true? and would it work properly and up to the 320MB/s? The mobo i want to plug it into is very recent and only bought from overclockers about 2 months ago, so i assume it has the latest gen of PCI slot, which according to wikipedia has a bandwidth of 533MB/s

cheers guys
 
hellarda said:
I have read somewhere that you can use PCI-X cards in PCI slots, is this true? and would it work properly and up to the 320MB/s? The mobo i want to plug it into is very recent and only bought from overclockers about 2 months ago, so i assume it has the latest gen of PCI slot, which according to wikipedia has a bandwidth of 533MB/s

cheers guys
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To a certain extent - yes.

You have to bare in mind that there are 3.3v and 5v PCI cards - some slots are one of the other, some both. With a PCI-X card it will only physically fit if there is no obstruction at the rear of the slot as the card overhangs.

I had PCI-X NICs in PCI slots for a long time and they worked fine for low volumes of traffic. Not sure how a PCI-X SCSI card will stack up speed wise.
 
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