What do you need for a SCSI setup?

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 21:32

My mate wants to get a SCSI setup, will it be much faster than his sata 150 maxtor? What does he actually need, I assume just a SCSI HD (is 80 pin better than 68?) , cables (do you need terminators) and a SCSI controller. I saw that these 15k hard drives can run at 320mb/s, how is this possible if PCI bus is restricted to 133mb/s? Will it be worth the upgrade? If he buys a drive second hand will he be able to get the drivers from the manufacturers website?

Mikey1280 · 28 Jan 2006 at 21:51

Have you got a 50 pin drive? Is the latest 80pin, is this what my mate should buy? So it will not be a problem running on a standard PCI slot then, thanks.

Mikey1280 · 29 Jan 2006 at 13:00

Thanks guys, I think I'll tell my friend to go 68pin then and to look for a 15k drive or does it matter whether its 15 or 10k? What is the average transfer rate of your Maxtor Atlas Jeff?

Mikey1280 · 29 Jan 2006 at 13:39

I thought SCSI was too expensive smids

! I would be interested to see the HDtach times as well.

Mikey1280 · 29 Jan 2006 at 13:50

Lol, I saw quite a few SCSI drives 2nd hand for good prices as well, how long have you had your raptor, is it being abandoned already?

Mikey1280 · 29 Jan 2006 at 14:01

That could be a long wait for a PCI e scsi controller, although I did see some pci e x8 scsi controllers but they were very expensive. Its annoying on these new motherboards that they are replacing the good old PCI slot with PCI e x1 which have no use so far. I have three useless Pci e x1 slots, hopefully they will bring out something for them soon. Anyway, Jeff where's the HDtach times?

Mikey1280 · 29 Jan 2006 at 14:08

Looks very nice Jeff, dont quote competitors though! Smids, has your Pci e x1 controller speeded up access times and transfer rates signifcantly when compared to the Nforce 4 ports?

Mikey1280 · 31 Jan 2006 at 17:05

Anyone know if you need drivers for a SCSI card as my friend bought one 2nd hand without drivers or will windows auto-detect it?

Mikey1280 · 1 Feb 2006 at 08:12

Thanks Jeff, I'll tell him to try and get the drivers from the website.

Mikey1280 · 2 Feb 2006 at 16:54

Are there no basic windows SCSI drivers apart from the manufacturers that can be slipstreamed, I dont think the drivers are available on the website?