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Re: [PLUG] OT: SCSI controllers 4sale
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you are correct, slower components will bring the speed down. which is why i
have 3 controllers for my raid and moved the SCSI CDROM (10Mb/s) and tape to
another machine.
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:06:39AM -0600, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>> yeah, an ultra160 is about $300. this model peaks at 40Mb/s, or so the
>> marketing literature says.
>
> Yep. But if you have any non-UW hardware on the same bus (don't
> recall whether that card has two buses or just one), you'll be
> limited to the speed of the slower hardare. (That is, if you just
> have a fast-and-narrow, you won't be able to go above 20 MB/s as the
> bus can't be wide if any devices aren't.) Um... I think. But don't
> trust me without checking the documentation. (I've got a good link
> explaining all SCSI stuff buried in my bookmarks at home; google
>should turn it up, but I haven't got time to look right now. Someone
>remind me to post it later.)
>
> Note that 20 MB/s, much less 40, is really plenty for most things
> most people like to do at home. I really am spoiled by having 160
> MB/s and up (fiber channel theoretically gets to 200 MB/s, but any
> vendor who quotes you that number as what you're likely to see is
> lying to you).
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
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