Benefits of Scsi Hard Drives?

[richklein]

Hey all,
My sister gave me an Adaptec 29160 card & a Seagate Cheetah 10krpm 9 gig drive. I was pretty psyched for it. I have a scsi CD & a Scsi CDR. My impression in the past was that scsi was generally a good way to go.

It seems that IDE has caught up.

I ran a Sandra test on my new drive & the results were not very impressive.

I got a 24000 with the drive. It was equal to a ATA100 30 gig drive. An ATA66 or ATA100 dual 30 gig drive setup was much faster than this drive.

I figure that the scsi drive is hotter than an IDE & I am not contemplating the benefits of keeping it.

Whats the scoop?

Thanks,
Rich

[KaHNZa]

SCSI is dying in my opinion

[CrystalMethod]

Two words...
"HOT SWAP"

[Roman79]

Sandra is not designed to show you the benefits of a SCSI drive. IDE has caught up, in a big way, but SCSI drives still rule in multitasking. Put an IDE drive in a server, then have 5 clients try and read from it at the same time.......you want to see something slow down to a crawl?
I'd say for most of us SCSI drives are pretty useless, unless you "have" to defrag and play quake at the same time

[Johan]

I have some older SCSI stuff and it is slower than modern IDE drives. Some benefits of SCSI are longer life and dependability. The speed advantage over IDE is still there but you need to have 'modern' SCSI stuff; this has never changed. IMO, modern IDE drives are definitely a better value.

BTW, for comparison, my SCSI stuff indexes at about 14000 in Sandra while the 20G IBM ATA100/7200rpm drive I have indexes at just over 24000.

[trey_w]

scsi all the way

[rogerdugans]

Multiple read/write makes a big difference: I forget the correct terminology, but scsi drives are much faster for multiple simultaneous access.

I have some older scsi stuff that is about the same as ata 100 in raw speed testing on a single pc, and they were free!

But the big advantage is in servers, etc, where multiple clients access a drive at the same time: scsi is considerably faster.

I would expect a scsi raid array to perform a bit better than an ide array, but it probably would not be cost effective for anything but a hardcore scsi enthusiast.

[scooby]

I use Ultra160 scsi and it is much better for mulititasking
The read write is a whole lot quicker.
I use scsi for windows and programs etc and ide drives for storage.

[Caffinehog]

Find used SCSI drives on ebay. CHEAP! That's why I use it. Cheap backup.