Re: Drives

["Casey Boone" <bn21stu@semovm.semo.edu>]

although not exactly an answer for you i have to say that the promise ata100
controller cards are really really quick

cost wise i would go with a promise and some 7200rpm ide's

casey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <mark@bish.net>
To: "Southern Illinois Linux Users Group" <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: SILUG: Drives


>
> So, with bish.net experiencing a severe drive failure I get to take this
> time to evaluate the drive setup.
>
>
> Right now I'm down to one 40Gig IDE drive.  I have one 1Gig SCSi drive,
> but it is pretty old and I don't really want to trust it.
>
> So, I'm in the drive buying business again.  I have one PCI slot avail for
> either a SCSI card or a UATA card.  What are people opinion on having a
> fast SCSI drive as a system drive and using two IDE drives as so-called
> data drives?
>
> I'm looking for performance here.  I've seen Steve go from a "SCSI is the
> way." to "UATA is da bomb"  Now I can either go completely UATA or have a
> SCSI/IDE combo.  If you have any real-world experience let me know.
>
> Choices would be:
> 9Gig 10,000RPM SCSI drive and either one or two 40GIG IDE drive(s)
>    non-UATA.
>
> or
>
> 2 40Gig 7200RPM 100UATA IDE drives
>
> I'm liking that 3ware card Steve but I just can't afford it right now.  I
> want to move out of this PII and into a new AMD.
>
>
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