U160 SCSI Drive and 64bit controller card in DELL Dimension

[Vito]

I've got a LSI 64bit U160 SCSI controller card and a Fujitsu 15K-18GB drive I'd like to install it into a DELL Dimension at work and use as a boot/ apps drive.
Knowing that the LSI card is a 64 bit slot card and will work in a 32 bit slot.......will I take a performance hit putting it in the 32bit slot . This Dell does not have 64 slots.

Just curious here.

[SK8]

you will be limited to the throuput of the drive since its on the 33mhz pci bus, ie 133mbps MAX. Witht the 64bit one you could get alot higher, im currently running a 64bit nic in a 32bit slot and i have no problems, it will work decent but dont expect all 160mbps tho.

[madnod]

i would like you to update me about the performance of this setup cause i already bought the controller LSIU160 and i am looking for a 15K 36GB drive.
and since u have raptors raid 0 i would like you to compare the raid setup to this 15k SCSI drive especially with its very low access time.
Regarding the PCI 33 you will be limited to the 133MB/s bandwidth of the bus but i don't think that this will be a problem in a 1 SCSI drive solution.
personally i think that 90% of the people going into raptors RAID setup should consider one SCSI 15K solution cause it has higher price/performance ratio and it solves the main issue in todays hard drive (access time).
hope to see some numbers from your side,
bye

[Stedeman]

i would like you to update me about the performance of this setup cause i already bought the controller LSIU160 and i am looking for a 15K 36GB drive.
and since u have raptors raid 0 i would like you to compare the raid setup to this 15k SCSI drive especially with its very low access time.
Regarding the PCI 33 you will be limited to the 133MB/s bandwidth of the bus but i don't think that this will be a problem in a 1 SCSI drive solution.
personally i think that 90% of the people going into raptors RAID setup should consider one SCSI 15K solution cause it has higher price/performance ratio and it solves the main issue in todays hard drive (access time).
hope to see some numbers from your side,
bye

I agree with you 100% on that.

[Vito]

Ill do a "taste test" this weekend and post results.
Might be interesting.