[geeks] PC SCSI

[Mike Parson]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:49:49PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Someone educate me on the current state of PC (x86) SCSI.  The last
> time I kept up with anything was when the Adaptec 2940 (and variants)
> were the "hot" card to have.
> 
> Now, I've got a Dell machine here (old P3/500 dual Xeon with 1G RAM) and
> a pair of brand-new IBM Ultrastar 73G UltraSCSI-3 HDs.  Should I go with
> the onboard SCSI (Adaptec 7880?), a PCI 2940UW (got tons of them), or 
> look at a newer card?

U-SCSI-3 is what?  U160?  U320?

The 7880 is probably F-UW (80 mb/s?), and the 2940UW would give you
40 mb/s?.  For best performance, you'll obviously want the matching
controller for those drives, so you'll want the Adaptec 29160 or maybe
the 29320, depending on what is meant by UltraSCSI-3.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org