Which SCSI card to go with?

[nugihouser]

I have 2 10k rpm seagate SCSI drives running on my old adaptec 2940UW card. Runs great but someone told me I should get a faster SCSI card like the 29160 to take adavantage of the 160mb/sec data transfer rate vs. the 40mg/sec on my 2940uw. I'm running a standard dell workstation P4 2.8gHz with 2Gigs of ram. Will I see a difference? I do music streaming and a lot of backups. Thanks

 

[rvnguy]

nugihouser,

If your Seagate drives are 160 or 320 capable, then yes a card upgrade would provide an increase in access rates.

If 160 drives, then the access rate would be on the order of 4X allowing for overhead. 320 would provide 8X increase allowing for overhead.

"Will you see the difference"??? This depends totally on the applications that you use & the OS. A normal backup (dependant on the speed of the backup media) could be significantly faster or you might not see a difference.

Disk access speed should be improved, will you benefit??


rvnguy
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