SCSI Install

[John Nice]

I picked up a few 18 gb 15k drives for a little SCSI practice and was wondering if anyone knows a good site with a walk-through for installation and set-up (or something similar).

and I'm sure it's been discussed a million times, but what is normal performance vs say a 150 gb raptor?

thanks

 

[Zepher]

single user/single access, both about the same (raptor may have a slight edge).
multi user/multi access, scsi has the advantage.

 

[John Nice]

single user/single access, both about the same (raptor may have a slight edge).
multi user/multi access, scsi has the advantage.

thanks, will the controller make that much difference for a single user? is there that much difference in quality if you aren't max'ing the drives?

 

[Zepher]

What type of controller are you planning on using?
since you are just playing around with scsi right now, see if you can pick up a cheap raid controller and try different raid configurations.
I used to run SCSI drives up until 2 years ago. the last ones I had in my system were a pair of 36gig 10K rpm Seagate Cheetahs.
I ended up going with a SATA drive since the cheetahs weren't that fast in a single user environment, and they were quite loud and very very hot, and I needed more space for my system drive.

 

[John Nice]

the drives are Fujitsu MAS3184NP's
and the controller is LSI Symbios sym8951u.

I realize that I won't get full SCSI benefit since I probably won't have too much random access, but they called to me, what could I do?

 

[John Nice]

also, what's a good prog for testing the drives?

 

[Zepher]

I remember a program called HD Tach that I used a few years ago.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

 

[John Nice]

I remember a program called HD Tach that I used a few years ago.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

Thanks