15k RPM Maxtor 18GB SCSI

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aspire

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never used an SCSI be 4 but would very much like to. just woundering why it's only 25$... i know it;s only 18 GB but still
 
SCSI is a pain in the a**, you'll soon find out if you've never used it. It's really only beneficial to servers, stick to PATA and SATA for Desktops. (if you can even find a board with SCSI, remember, there are many different interface connectors for SCSI)
 
SCSI is a pain in the a**, you'll soon find out if you've never used it. It's really only beneficial to servers, stick to PATA and SATA for Desktops. (if you can even find a board with SCSI, remember, there are many different interface connectors for SCSI)
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For basic configus SCSI is pretty simple and consists of "follow the instructions and pop the controller disc in" when prompted (or slipstream)

As for onboard SCSI, i'd stay away from them ... addon controller csrds are far better and easier to work with :)
 
Praetor said:
As for onboard SCSI, i'd stay away from them ... addon controller csrds are far better and easier to work with :)
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Unfortunately, in the most intensive benchmarks, they're slower, which defeats the purpose of a 15k RPM drive.
 
k thnx guys...i'll think about it...i just want something that will load my friggin OS faster...it takes 7 passes of that little bar for windows to load
 
aspire said:
k thnx guys...i'll think about it...i just want something that will load my friggin OS faster...it takes 7 passes of that little bar for windows to load
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I don't think that's the reason why. On this machine, Xp pro took 6, but Home takes only 2 passes for me, and I have standard PATA 100.
 
Unfortunately, in the most intensive benchmarks, they're slower, which defeats the purpose of a 15k RPM drive.
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Did you just suggest that an addon SCSI controller is, for the most part, slower than an onboard SCSI controller?
 
Praetor said:
Did you just suggest that an addon SCSI controller is, for the most part, slower than an onboard SCSI controller?
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I think he did, but was probably assuming that onboard controllers would be faster than 133Mbps (that being the speed at which addon cards would cap at if they were to be using the PCI bus)

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I think he did, but was probably assuming that onboard controllers would be faster than 133Mbps (that being the speed at which addon cards would cap at if they were to be using the PCI bus)
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Right you are however there's PCI-X as well as PCI-Express controllers .... fruthermore being a more server oriented product, expansion slots are more than likely able to handle 266MB/s :)
 
Praetor said:
Right you are however there's PCI-X as well as PCI-Express controllers .... fruthermore being a more server oriented product, expansion slots are more than likely able to handle 266MB/s :)
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Ah yes, dear me, it seems I've forgotten to stay up with the times on SCSI. I apologize for my mistake.
 
aspire said:
k thnx guys...i'll think about it...i just want something that will load my friggin OS faster...it takes 7 passes of that little bar for windows to load
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You should be able to acheive only 2 passws of the blue bar using windows loading with a sata drive. Thats what mine is(was, now its 4 with windows xp pro 64bit)
 
I'm still insistant on it being the copy of windows, because home zips on here, sometimes less than even 1, but pro takes at least 6 passes.
 
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On some of the older OSes, you have to specify drivers for SCSI drives (I know this because we have a bunch from when they were far superior to IDE in everything) but I don't think that is the case with XP/Vista.
 
I'm still insistant on it being the copy of windows, because home zips on here, sometimes less than even 1, but pro takes at least 6 passes.
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Boot time should be measured in SI units ... not in passes-of-the-bar...

On some of the older OSes, you have to specify drivers for SCSI drives (I know this because we have a bunch from when they were far superior to IDE in everything) but I don't think that is the case with XP/Vista.
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Still have to for many of them ... but theres also the slipstreaming option
 
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