Hi,

I've been looking about at various scsi hard drives and controllers
with the intent of buying one for my work desktop, the task is going to
require alot of repeated disk access so the quicker the better so i've
assumed that a 15,000rpm Ultra320 type is my best bet. However i have
no idea about the scsi controllers and compatibility issues involved.
The desktop is a Dell Optiplex GX620, i have had my IT guys on to Dell
to see if they could come up with something but they do not support
scsi drives on these computers.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the make/type of scsi hard drive
and scsi controller which would best suit this desktop.

Many thanks

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boney2002@hotmail.com wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> I've been looking about at various scsi hard drives and controllers
> with the intent of buying one for my work desktop, the task is going
> to require alot of repeated disk access so the quicker the better so
> i've assumed that a 15,000rpm Ultra320 type is my best bet. However i
> have no idea about the scsi controllers and compatibility issues
> involved. The desktop is a Dell Optiplex GX620, i have had my IT guys
> on to Dell to see if they could come up with something but they do not
> support scsi drives on these computers.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to the make/type of scsi hard
> drive and scsi controller which would best suit this desktop.

Adaptec controllers are widely used and readily available, you might as
well go with one of theirs.  While there are people that will get really
worked up about which brand of disk, I would suggest you buy one that
you can get easily from your favourite vendor.  Doesn't hurt to look for
product reviews.

The GX620 doesn't have a lot of disk bays, depending on what you already
have installed.  And heat dissipation could, conceivabley, be an issure.
You may need to look at an external enclosure.

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boney2002@hotmail.com wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> I've been looking about at various scsi hard drives and controllers
> with the intent of buying one for my work desktop, the task is going
> to require alot of repeated disk access so the quicker the better so
> i've assumed that a 15,000rpm Ultra320 type is my best bet. However i
> have no idea about the scsi controllers and compatibility issues
> involved. The desktop is a Dell Optiplex GX620, i have had my IT guys
> on to Dell to see if they could come up with something but they do not
> support scsi drives on these computers.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to the make/type of scsi hard
> drive and scsi controller which would best suit this desktop.

Any PCI Adaptec will be OK, if you got big chassis you will manage to
put new hard drive in it.
On the other hand - don't expect miracles.
I don't know what you are doing with this,
As this is your work PC,  I would consider thinking about buying
Precision workstation with on board SCSI.
You got different motherboard architecture, but this is not for this group.

best regards
Peter

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In article <qB9wg.11725$j7.320222@news.indigo.ie>, czarny@nie.ma.spama says...
>
>boney2002@hotmail.com wrote in
>news:1153470015.222015.221820@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
> 
>
>Any PCI Adaptec will be OK, if you got big chassis you will manage to
>put new hard drive in it.
>On the other hand - don't expect miracles.
>I don't know what you are doing with this,
>As this is your work PC,  I would consider thinking about buying
>Precision workstation with on board SCSI.
>You got different motherboard architecture, but this is not for this group.
>

sort of true if you're going "old" SCSI  (which I use myself) then
a combination of an Adaptec HBA & a Seagate 15k U320 hard drive
is probably the best BUT
maybe you should take a look at the next gen of SCSI that's just starting
to deliver called SAS. They usually come with the HBA and are the same price
and build as the standard SCSI & FC drives.

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Why SCSI?  SATAII offers pretty good performance especially in RAID
setups.  Western Digital offers 10,000RPM drives as well now.  This
would cut down on costs, heat, and complication.

If not check out some of the enterise workstations with onboard SCSI
controllers or an LSI SCSI controller.  I have had a lot of experience
at multiple OEMs with LSI (Intel uses them for onboard and upcard
controllers too)

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