The SCSI connection

[misjudgedinall]

Hello all. I currently run a RAID 0 (DUAL 120 GB SATA Barracuta). I was looking into getting a SCSI drive for my operating system only. Would it increase performance at all? (thinking a 10k RPM SCSI with an adaptect PCI controller) I also have a Soundblaster audigy 2 zs on my PCI bus. I don't use paging files (turned them off with a reg hack) because I have a gig of ram.

[apocalypse]

For general use there is no advantage using SCSI over IDE or SATA drivers anymore.

I have the Adaptect 2940U2W and a Seagate 10K rpm drive and when compared to my 80 GB Western Digital 8 MB crash drive there is no observable difference. I had the same setup as you are thinking about setting up, just for the OS for maximum booting speed, but in the end, the one or two second boot advantage was very much outweighed by the cost of using SCSI hardware.

Of course if you're hosting a webserver or something like that the SCSI will outperform the IDE/SATA drives as they have better sustained throughput.

If you want some exact numbers you can check out www.tomshardware.com for some hard drive comparisons.

[Someone Stupid]

Not really. I'm running SCSI RAID and when HardOCP posted their SATA and IDE RAID 0 specs vs. non RAID single drives the differences weren't even much with that. I'm running a bit faster than they were for level loads, but the hardware is a LOT more expensive and not worth it for gaming at all. I no longer need it I'll admit, but I don't need to get rid of them at the moment as well.

[misjudgedinall]

Thank you for saving me about 200 clams!