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- From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
- Subject: Re: WindowsNT: which SCSI-II-adaptor to use?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.072042.3469@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov15.220203.233@csghsg5a.bitnet>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:20:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.220203.233@csghsg5a.bitnet> lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
- >Hi all
- >
- >I'm just about to change from the IDE- to the SCSI-system.
- >I want to buy a SCSI-II Harddisk and an EISA-SCSI-II-adaptor.
- >
- >The AMI Eisa Caching SCSI hostadaptor or the Mylex DCE376 (is
- >this an SCSI-II adaptor, too?) seem to be very fast controllers
- >under MS-DOS or Novell. But how about WindowsNT? Will this
- >adaptors be that fast with the NTFS as well? As I plan to run
- >WindowsNT as soon as it's final release appears I want to be
- >sure i get an adaptor which is really fast for the NTFS.
- >Of course, any recommendation for another SCSI-II-adaptor
- >will be appreciated.
- >
- >
- >I plan to get a fixed disk which has a capacity of about
- >500Mb. What manufacturer would you suggest? I think that
- >fixed disk from either Quantum, Conner, Maxtor or Fujitsu
- >should all be good. Can anyone confirm/deny this or
- >make any suggestions?
- >
- >Thanks in advance
- >
- >Luke
- >
-
- In host adapters: forget about the cached adapters. Go with something
- like an AHA-1742B. The money spent on the controller's cache will be
- better spent on RAM, and its possible that a hardware cache could
- actually _hurt_ overall system performance, so would be money down the
- drain. Furthermore, I'm an OS/2 user, and have really come to
- appreciate the fact that not all cards are equally well supported :-(,
- so you probably want to go with something will absolutely, positively
- be supported, like an Adaptec board. With other boards, you may be
- taking a risk.
-
- Good luck,
-
- Geoffrey Coulter
- gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
-