[Sunhelp] Ultra 10 + scsi-card

[Patrick Tetzlaff]

Thanks for your quick answer.
Will SUN's Single channel, single-ended, UltraSCSI hostadapter (X5010A)
be enough for this task?

James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Patrick Tetzlaff wrote:
> 
> > Ive heard that Symbios 53C785 work great, but I intend to install an
> 
> 53c875, not 785.
> 
> > IBM 1000RPM Ultra160 harddrive. Due to the fact that Symbios 53C785
> > cards only support 40mb/s, it would be nice to have an adapter that is
> > atleast capable of 80mb/s.
> 
> You will not come close to saturating even a 40MB/s bus with a single
> 10K rpm drive.  Since latancy is not dominated by the bus, you would
> probably see no performance benefit at all by going to a different card.
> 
> Faster cards do exist but are considerably more expensive.  I doubt they
> would be worth it in your case.  The 53c875's definately have the best
> support.  If you intend on using many drives on this system eventually a
> dual channel card may be a good bet.
> 
> -James
> 
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