SCSI or not to SCSI?

[ScreamingEgle]

Would it be to my advantage to obtain a SCSI card  & a HD SCSI
with 15K rpm & 3.7 ms for AH play?

TY  ED

[mason22]

ummm, Yes.  

and send me one while you're at it  

but as far as affecting AH play, you might not really notice any difference at all.

[Animal]

You will not notice any difference in AH.

[ScreamingEgle]

THANKS Animal & Mason22, it saves me money
Ed

[weazel]

You probably won't see much improvement in AH performance, but if you use your PC for creating multimedia, video editing, or work with large files then SCSI is the way to go.

I'm running an Adaptec 2940U/UW with a Seagate Barracuda for C:.

My swap file is assigned to D:\ (another Barracuda) this increases swap file performance and allows it to handle high load multi tasking conditions that an IDE equipped PC would choke on.

SCSI is a more expensive in initial cost vs IDE, but in my experience its very durable, so in long term use it may be cheaper.

I bought the Adaptec 2940UW, (2) Quantum Fireball disks, and a Toshiba CD-ROM in 1996 and all are still in use today, I added a CD-RW this year so I currently have 6 drives installed.

SCSI busmastering allows up to 15 installed devices but only uses 1 IRQ for the controller, this frees IRQ 14 and 15 since you don't need to enable onboard IDE, this helps eliminate IRQ conflicts when configuring system hardware.

The only problems I've had were with two Seagate Barracuda drives, the 'Cudas were fast but short lived due to overheating.

I now have 12 fans in my SuperMicro server case to keep it all cool.  

[beet1e]

I have a SCSI HP 9600i CDRW. I have the same SCSI card as Weazel. But my HDDs are IBM GXP60 Deskstars. No performance issues. The CDRW works really well, but I seem to remember that the SCSI had to go in slot 3 of my A7V133 mobo, in order to avoid an IRQ conflict.

Weazel - I feel your pain. As you have found, Seagate HDDs are total crap. I have a friend who's on his third in the same PC.

[Skuzzy]

Well,... I pretty much SCSI stuff exclusively, and have many Seagate Cheetah's running all the time and have never had a failure.
The Barracuda's are ok, as long as you move air around them.  They run hotter than the Cheetahs.  I always install HD fans from Antec to solve the heat issue.  Heck, I have SCSI drives over 10 years old still running like a champ.