Mike Branda wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:16 -0600, michael hast wrote:
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>>Hey guys!
>>
>> I'm thinking of using SCSI's on the new machine. I don't think I
>>want to get a server board, but I've been looking at these PCI SCSI
>>controller cards. Is that really as simple as it is? Does one simply
>>plug the card into the slot, hook up the drives to it and format them to
>>the system? (These things are strange and new to me. :-P) Plus, have
>>any of you used them under Linux? I would really like to use a couple
>>SCSI's as my only local hard drives and leave my IDE channels open for
>>cd/dvd/zip/etc. Any imput is welcome. Thanks.
>>
>>
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>
>Michael,
>
>I'm not at the office today but tomorrow when I get back I'll give you
>the name of a few SCSI controller cards and or mobos that we use that
>are Linux compatible. Any idea what SCSI technology you are looking
>for? (there are several different SCSI bus types and many different
>types of connectors). Have you thought about SATA or SATA2 instead?
>You free up the IDE's, and SATA's are rated at 150 MB/s (SATA2 3.0Gb/s).
>SCSI disks tend to be cost prohibitive too. For instance an 80G Seagate
>SATA2 is about $65 while a 36.7GB Seagate 10,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 80pin
>runs $165. Plus the controller card. While I bet most of the Mobo's
>you're looking at for your new machine come with SATA headers. I highly
>recommend Seagate disks though regardless. I've built 130 or so
>machines with IDE's from them and 5 servers with SCSI's (10 disks each
>raid 5) and 1 with SATA's (24 disks 4.3 TB raid 5) in the last 2 years.
>Roughly 200+ hard drives and I had one go south out of all of them.
>Seagate replaced it in about a week and a half's time. Their disks have
>awesome ratings. Do some googling on disk comparisons and benchmarks.
>It's worth the few extra bucks in my mind over the others. I have a few
>I'd recommend against too from experience with them but I'll e-mail you
>those off list if you want to know. No flame bait today thanks ;^).
>
>
>HTH.
>
>
>Mike Branda Jr.
>
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I would look at SATA too. I just put together a system with a 200G
Maxtor SATA and everything started and have had no problems, and is
fast. It's configured for dual boot.
Dennis
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