[TriLUG] Ultra 320 SCSI card recommendations

[Kevin Flanagan]

I second Jason's comment, it's more likely that with a non RAID card, 
you will find the spinning spindles to be the bottleneck much more often 
than the channel to them.


If you are have a configuration where the spindles aren't the 
bottleneck, you shouldn't scrimp on a cheap card, get an Adaptec at the 
very least.  If you have an application where the SCSI bus is the 
bottleneck shouldn't you be looking at a caching array controller? 

Just my thoughts,


    Kevin

Jason Tower wrote:
> i have a few cards, but i think they're u160 not u320.  i doubt you'll 
> noting any significant performance between the two, the disk will be 
> the bottleneck not the scsi speed.
>
> Tarus Balog wrote:
>> Gang:
>>
>> I'm looking for a Linux-friendly (CentOS 4) SCSI card that supports  
>> U320. Nothing fancy (i.e. RAID) and the less expensive the better.
>>
>> -T
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