5300 controller, Raid, and Cage

[timbiotic]

Ok, I inherited some SCSI stuff from an old server at work. I thought setting it up at home for my windows partition should speed things up. Here is the scenario:

Compaq 5304-128 Controller
2 9.1 10000rpm SCSI utlra160 drives.
A 5 Bay drive cage I pulled from the proliant 1600 / 450 server. HAd to use this because the drives are 80 pin (sca2) and the cable is 68.

I set up a logical drive in RAID 0. The controller is a 64bit but my pci slot is the shorter one so I am guessing it is only 32bit.

I had to use the 2000 drivers since the only other option was 2003 server.

I successfully installed Windows XP and ran HDTach 3.1 on both my old IDE drive and the new SCSI drives.

Everything seems faster on these drives, but the benchmarks were awful. The random access was faster, but the burst speed and sequential read was crap.

My only guesses are:
1. The cage I used only supports Ultra SCSI 1?
2. The drivers are wrong
3. HDTach is ide tests and everything is fine

Can someone point me to the right direction to test the SCSI drive speeds or get a better RAID/SCSI controller for my setup? If I have to, I can sell the 5304-128 on ebay for $300+ as that is what they are going for. Then I can buy a new one to replace it and get some sca2 convertors as well.

Thanks for any advice,
tim

[timbiotic]

Any suggestions? I did try some older 9.1gb scsi drives in the cage that are not 160 and their random access time was slower than the 160's. But still the burst and sequential are much slower than the ide drives.

Any help?

Hello? Did I come to the wrong forum?

[timbiotic]

Anyone want to buy a controller card?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39968&item=5118201259&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[L337 M33P]

Selling isn't permitted outside the classifeds - might want to remove your link?

I don't know that much about SCSI, so here's a free bump so someone who does can see :D

[Restorer]

Everything seems faster on these drives, but the benchmarks were awful. The random access was faster, but the burst speed and sequential read was crap.

Post some numbers. Some people will draw the "crap" line at 30 MB/s or 5 MB/s. I have two 9.1 GB 10k RPM drives in a hardware RAID 0 and they do about 25 write, 30 read. If the sequential speeds are actually very low (<10 MB/s), then it's likely the backplane you pulled from the Compaq only supports slower SCSI, but interfaces slower than UW (40 MB/s) are 50-pin native. I don't know what to say.