SCSI Question

I have a 5BG Seagate ST34520N

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/.../st34520n.html

What card do I need to run this drive at it's best speed? All I'm looking to do is run this one drive, and use it as a Windows install drive, or just for a page file for Windows and Photoshop Scratch Disk.

What controller do I want? I don't want to spend too much cash and I don't want loads of wire to tidy up, so only need a SCSI cable with 1 plug on it.

Thanks

Edit: Or would I be better off with

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=49044

And a compatible controller card?

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Originally posted by Caged
I have a 5BG Seagate ST34520N

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/.../st34520n.html

What card do I need to run this drive at it's best speed? All I'm looking to do is run this one drive, and use it as a Windows install drive, or just for a page file for Windows and Photoshop Scratch Disk.

What controller do I want? I don't want to spend too much cash and I don't want loads of wire to tidy up, so only need a SCSI cable with 1 plug on it.

Thanks

Edit: Or would I be better off with

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=49044

And a compatible controller card?

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Hi, m8

Firstly, your SCSI drive doesn't support > 20MB/sec peak rate transfer, so that is pretty slow in comparison to today's IDE drives (let alone top end SCSI drives) and seek times are approx 20ms+ (which is also pretty damn slow - for the 4GB drive). The U160 drive isn't too shoddy on performance, having looked at some of the specs.

The ebuyer drive would be a bad choice though as it runs on an 80-pin configuration in U160 so you are limited to cards with 80-pin and ideally U160 to get the full performance out of it.

The first drive would work at full speed on a Ultra-2 card which you can pick up for about £17 inc (from scan) - I think you'd have to get a SCSI cable, which if you shop around wouldn't be that expensive for a 50-pin single drive. Not sure about termination at the drive end - whether you'd need to terminate it (likely as it's an older drive) or whether you can get an auto-terminating cable to ease the budget. You could spend a bit more and get an Ultra-3 card which does 30MB/sec, but for this drive it would be overkill.

Once you have got the controller card, cable and terminator you are looking at around £30 - £40 which would be better spent on a nice quick 40GB IDE drive that you could dedicate for swap/boot.

/me bins drive

Thanks anyway

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Originally posted by Caged
/me bins drive

Thanks anyway

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would be nice to get the ebuyer one and run it on a U160 controller (if you could find one for cheap) - then you would have a whole new world of SCSI opportunity ahead of you !

Fujitsu MAS3735 15krpm :D

or, more realistically:

Maxtor Atlas IV 10krpm :)

or just ditch the SCSI idea and get a nice raptor SATA 10krpm

Caged,

If you are interested i might have another identical drive if you really wanted to play with some scsi stuff.

Pm me if you are interested.

TiG

Nah I'm OK, not too bothered.

Don't even know if this thing works.

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Originally posted by TiG
Caged,

If you are interested i might have another identical drive if you really wanted to play with some scsi stuff.

Pm me if you are interested.

TiG

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... on a side note, only just noticed you are a backwards git ;)