Quick Recomendation please

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Hey everyone, quick question:

I Quote:

"...I have an Adapetec aha2940 Ultra Wide SCSI controller card and an IBM 9.1 gig Ultrastar UW drive, both of which are like new. They were ordered for a server and the guy defaulted, therefore I am left holding the hardware. The drive has been imaged once and has a NTFS partition on it. The card and drive are flawless and bulletproof and the stuff server dreams ant ultimate gaming machines are made of. Just get a

second Ultrastar and stripe the drives and the throughput and access times double!..."

 

This guys is offering me the above stuff as a trade for my mobo and CPU(the ones I'm selling).

 

As I'm not overly familiar with SCSI(I know it's faster than UDMA 100(though not by much))...and my roommate from last year, who ran SCSI, is gone...what would the forum's recomendation be?

 

The hdd is a 7200 RPM drive, same as my others...but I could probably upgrade to a 10000x eventually(in a loooong time).

 

 

 

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SCSI is quite a bit better than IDE actually. Ata100 doesnt really compare, as its not actually much better than ata-33 anyway. SCSI hard drives normally run at 4.5ms or 5ms, while the best ide drives run at 8.5ms. SCSI hard drives also run at 10000/15000rpm, so having those would be quite a bit faster than 7200rpm ide drives available. The deal seems pretty good, while the scsi card is fairly top range, probably third best as the 2940u2w and 29130(I think thats it) is probably a little better. The drive is also decent but there is better - seagate hold the crown for the best scsi drives with the cheetah series.