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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2000 10:28 pm
by Biohazard
Okay, got my 15k drive in... thing is FAST on a 2940U2W, but not as fast as it could be.
I was wonderin' what a good U160 card is (with some respect to cost). I know you guys would know
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 5:41 am
by damien6
Personally I use Adaptec 39160 but I've heard pretty good price/performance out of TekRam DC-390U3. I've never dealt w/their after support though, where as Adaptec after support "rocks".
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 6:25 am
by Darkheart
Unless you've got a bunch of other stuff running on your controller that you use simultaneously using a faster controller probably won't make much difference as your unlikely to be getting 80Mb/s off that drive anyway.
Darkheart
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 8:42 am
by Biohazard
this is in a high end workstation. It rus cad, 3dstudio, 3dviz, Visio, and some major apps. Not to mention some UT, Q3, and Diablo II
I've got the U2W card in there now, and it does run a sustained 80mbps with both of the drives (the 10k and the new 15k).
Does that count as needing a U160 card?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 10:34 am
by Splitfire
No. Send some of your components my way and then you might.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 2:19 pm
by Kakarot
I use the adaptec 29160 and it works pretty well. that one may be you best bet if you're going to go with an adaptec controller. I've heard good things about the Tekram controllers as well.. except that that newer one mentioned above may have some setup problems with Quantum scsi drives. Don't know for sure tho.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 2:29 pm
by CaterpillarAssassin
I've used a 19160 and it works nice.
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 2:47 pm
by LikeLinus
Ive got (2) 29160's and they work flawlessly. Great cards. If you dont plan on hooking up anything up HD's to it, get the 29160LP!
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 3:26 pm
by Esquire
I wanna swing my 29160 whats a good price? email me...
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 3:27 pm
by Esquire
p.s. that banging head icon is great
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 4:02 pm
by Radboy
Think u need a 64-bit PCI slot to take full advantage of the U160 protocol/bandwidth. Standard 32-bit PCI bus is limited to 133MB/s (@33MHz) .. heard actual/realistic bandwidth is more like 100MB/s .. taking into account bus overhead/housekeeping functions.
Note also that this 100MB/s includes *all* PCI devices .. i.e. your sound card, network card/modem, SCSI card, etc .. whatever u have .. which will eat into the bandwidth available to/for the scsi bus & its devices. Considering that the fastest drive on the planet cannot even sustain 50MB/s .. it's hard to justify U160 .. at least in a 32-bit pci slot .. (altho i'd still like to have one.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 4:04 pm
by Biohazard
I still have to hook up a pair of 10k u2w drives and a pair of scsi cdrom drives to this thing
any suggestions for a card like that?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2000 6:21 pm
by nexus_7
do what I did. get a raid card for the HD's and a 2930 or 2940 for the other stuff.
now we are talking Speed.
Greg