Re: [TCLUG:11551] Hardware Question

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Dave Erickson wrote:

> I see your point about the SCSI Hard Drive(s). What are your thoughts on
> SCSI adaptors? On the Motherboard or seperate? Differences? I was
> planning on using a Tyan S1832DL Tiger 100 Motherboard with a seperate
> SCSI controller.

Adaptec, and get the ultra2 wide kind (with matching disks). Yes, it's
expensive, but disk i/o is your bottleneck, not the CPU, as we've seen.
Skimp on CPU, get plenny o' RAM, and get kick-butt disks (IBM u2w 10k
RPM).


> I'll look into the tape backups also.

If you get SCSI tape, don't put it on the same controller as the HDD(s). I
have it from a good source (my former boss) that that can slow down your
whole SCSI bus.


-- Chris

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