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Slick · 06-10-2004, 07:38 PM

I'm in a situation here, I'm picking up some parts for my new computer, but I'm in a dilema. I'm not the most knowledgable about hard drive interfaces, so I'm kinda stuck.

I'm gonna be buying one of the new PCI exress motherboards when they come out in another couple of weeks, so I'm buying the other parts that I'll need rite now to be ready.

I'd like to get a nice 146.8-gig drive, which is SCSI Ultra320 68pin but all of the SCSI card that are Ultra 320 are PCI-X cards, which on the couple of motherboards that I'm looking at, they don't have that port. I checked around and found that the hard drive would work on an Ultra 160 PCI SCSI, however, wouldn't that hamper it's performance a bit ???

The new motherboard that I'm checking out has Serial ATA which is supposed to be decent, HOWEVER, the only 10,000 RPM drives they have that are Serial ATA are only 74-gigs which is kinda small. There are some good sized 7,200 RPM drives that have the Serial ATA interface, but they're only 7,200 RPM.

Anyways, my question is, what would you say is the best route to go, would the 10,000 RPM drive running on an Ultra 160 SCSI card still be faster than a 7,200 RPM running on a Serial ATA port ? Money isn't a matter here, I know that it's a LOT cheaper to go with a 7,200 rpm drive, but this is my new system and I want performance

06-10-2004, 07:38 PM
Slick Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houghton, MI Posts: 7,338	Serial ATA Vs. SCSI Ultra 160, what's better ? I'm in a situation here, I'm picking up some parts for my new computer, but I'm in a dilema. I'm not the most knowledgable about hard drive interfaces, so I'm kinda stuck. I'm gonna be buying one of the new PCI exress motherboards when they come out in another couple of weeks, so I'm buying the other parts that I'll need rite now to be ready. I'd like to get a nice 146.8-gig drive, which is SCSI Ultra320 68pin but all of the SCSI card that are Ultra 320 are PCI-X cards, which on the couple of motherboards that I'm looking at, they don't have that port. I checked around and found that the hard drive would work on an Ultra 160 PCI SCSI, however, wouldn't that hamper it's performance a bit ??? The new motherboard that I'm checking out has Serial ATA which is supposed to be decent, HOWEVER, the only 10,000 RPM drives they have that are Serial ATA are only 74-gigs which is kinda small. There are some good sized 7,200 RPM drives that have the Serial ATA interface, but they're only 7,200 RPM. Anyways, my question is, what would you say is the best route to go, would the 10,000 RPM drive running on an Ultra 160 SCSI card still be faster than a 7,200 RPM running on a Serial ATA port ? Money isn't a matter here, I know that it's a LOT cheaper to go with a 7,200 rpm drive, but this is my new system and I want performance Last edited by Slick; 06-10-2004 at 07:39 PM..