Hoot! Ultra SCSI 160 - very fast!

[CMonster]

Well, I did it - finally broke down and bought an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card for my Quantum Atlas Ultra SCSI III 7200rpm - Is is faster than the Ultra Wide card I had been running - yep!!! How fast is it - hard to tell because I think it's faster than anything I need to do. Most applications open as if they are already cached - about a second or less for most uncached. Even the big-old-clunky Star Office (for Windows) and the GIMP open in just 3 seconds.

[qball]

Yeppers, man these 160s rip, love mine. Am waiting for someone to come up with a stable 160 RAID controller, then things would get scary fast...

[NDC]

You got 29160? Do you have 64bit PCI ports? If you do, you will be able to use to its maximum. I just got a 29160N since I didn't have 64bit interface on my PCI ports.


Look here for comparisons on Adaptec SCSI cards:
http://www.adaptec.com/products/guide/ultra160scsi.html

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 12-21-2000).]

[Dave2]

Would Windows 2000 run faster on a system with 32MB RAM and an Ultra SCSI 160 10,000 RPM hard drive than a system with 256MB RAM and an Ultra 66 IDE 7200 RPM hard drive, everything else the same?

[NDC]

I would definetly say that the system with 256MB and Ultra66 IDE 7,200RPM drive will run faster than a system with 32MB RAM and Ultra 160 10,000RPM drive. 32MB is just too small to run Win2K.

[CMonster]

NDC, yes I got the 29160 for $219 locally -bare card and drivers disks only.


In a 32bit PCI slot (like I have now) it will function like the 29160N but it's nice to know the card will give me even more performance when I can finally upgrade to a board with 64bit PCI slots.


DAVE2 - I think I see your point - and you're right, I'd rather have enough money to buy sufficient memory than blow it all on a SCSI drive and controller card. Better still to have the memory and the fast drive. Anyway, a 7200rpm Ultra ATA-66 drive is nothing to sneeze at. I have 384MB of ram in the SCSI system, which used to have an Ultra ATA-66 Maxtor 5400rpm drive in it - the difference in speed from one drive to the other is like night and day.



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 12-22-2000).]