Scsi controller question

[4niKtor]

Hi

I would like to utilize 2 73.4 Scsi Drives I came into possesion of (Seagate Wide Ultra4 Scsi 10K)

I have a Chaintech 7NJS Ultra mainboard, which I will be replacing in 6 months or so with newer technology.

I do mainly gaming, and would like to buy a scsi adapter card that will allow me to stripe these drives, or, depending on the speed, mirror them.

What would be the card you guys would recommend?

[tdg]

Either LSI (AMI or Symbios included) or Adaptec cards are what I prefer. I know you can get a nice LSI card that will do RAID 0 for a little over a hundred bucks, cards that mirror will probably be a little more. ebay usually has some good deals if you want to save money and go the used route. I personally use a AMI MegaRAID 500 card for my mirrored OS drives in my server and an Adaptec 3400S for external arrays in RAID 5.

[UICompE02]

I'd recommend an LSI 20320-R controller in your case. They're $147.99 at NewEgg (you can probably find them cheaper elsewhere, but that's a good ballpark figured). They're a pretty good deal since they can control a single RAID 1 or RAID 0 volume. All the RAID work is done by firmware on the SCSI processor, so there's no overhead on the host system and will work on any OS that supports the controller (unlike Adaptec's HostRaid which depends on the host processor and will only work in Windows). Additionally, the retail box comes with a terminated U320 cable with four device connectors.

[4niKtor]

Great, that helps a lot. One last question, I dont have PCI express or 2.0 on my motherboard, is this going to severly botlleneck my throughput of the setup?
Iirc, pci bus is saturated at 150 mb/s ?

[unhappy_mage]

Great, that helps a lot. One last question, I dont have PCI express or 2.0 on my motherboard, is this going to severly botlleneck my throughput of the setup?
Iirc, pci bus is saturated at 150 mb/s ?
133, theoretically; 120, practically.

unless you've got a couple other cards on it (which you may think you don't but may still have, check your motherboard block diagram) (that was the most convoluted english I've written in a while) it should be fine. hope your lan is seperate, though.

if you're willing to spend the $ on a good scsi card, might as well get a mobo with pciX on it. Not pciE notice. 66 (or 133) mHz, 64 bits. Not x1 or x4 or xwhatever.
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