How Much Faster Is A SCSI Drive

[michaelsil1]

I'm curious as to how much faster a SCSI drive is than an ATA 100; also is it much more noticeable bringing up programs.

 

[slickstaa]

for most practical purposes, not that much and definitly not worth the money. SCSI would be ideal for servers, etc bua gaming rig wont see a huge performance increase. If you want a great IDE drive that will run neck and neck with scsi, chceck out the 120 gig western digital special edition with the 8 meg bufer.

 

[flamethrower205]

Also u can consider RAID.

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[Arrow]

For a typical system like Slick said, it's not really worth the money. However, if you're going to be putting a ton of devices into your system, you might want to look into it.

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[CALV]

one place where you willnotice, is if you do a lot of file copying, copy a couple of large files simultaniously on an ide drive and watch the system crawl, not so on scsi


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[michaelsil1]

Is RAID faster? And If I decide to mirror my drives will this have a faster access time than regular Ultra ATA 100.

 

[CALV]

if you mirror the drives, you will probably see a DECREASE in speed, however if you use STRIPING, you will see an increase in speed.


If they squeeze olives to get olive oil, how do they get baby oil?

 

[sjonnie]

if you mirror the drives, you will probably see a DECREASE in speed, however if you use STRIPING, you will see an increase in speed.

<i>RAID 1</i>
It is not faster than a single drive, but provides excellent data safety. Even if one drive crashes, the system will continue working.

<i>RAID 0 </i>
RAID 0 does more than store data across two or more drives in so-called stripes (pretty much like a zipper). The idea behind this is to merge the capacity of all drives while increasing performance by distributing data over all drives, so that it can be read in parallel.

Thus with RAID 1 you will see no drop in <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/01q4/011023/raid-04.html#data_transfer_performance" target="_new">performance</A> but then no increase either - its just for data safety