SCSI on XP?

[roberts]

Is it OK to use a SCSI drive for the system drive on a XP machine. Sorry I am from the Mac world and I am setting up an Accel system on a PC.
Also can you use a Fibre Channel card and a SCSI 128 card on the same machine?

[steve at Your Heaven]

As far as I know, there's no reason not to. However, it's more expensive, and probably not worth the bother. I myself am using a SCSI audio drive, which I got 2 or three years ago, but at this point 7200 rpm USB2 and 1394 plug'n'play externals are more convenient, cheaper, and plenty fast. There are reports of people getting WAY over 50 tracks on just one of these - do a search in this duc, you should find good info.

Sorry, I can't answer the Fibre Channel/SCSI question.

[George Ware]

I use an Adaptec 29160 PCI SCSI w/15k Seagate Ultra 160s.
I also use USB 2.0 and firewire HD.
SCSI VERY expensive and very fast.
USB 2.0 or Firewire Cheap and fast.
Your $ your call

George Ware

[Chris Cavell]

Granite cases is now putting SATA drives in their external enclosures, 10k and 15k rpm....just as good as scsi for quick response.

[grivel]

Right now I am using USB 2.0 External Drive, Seagate SCSI 68-pin UW drives, & 3 WD 8MB Cache IDE drives in the same system / WINXP Pro

SCSI is superior in durability & speed to all currently out:

TYPE
Ultra320 SCSI (16-bit Wide) 320MB/sec [External i/o transfer rate]
EIDE / ATA (100 or 133MB/sec)
USB or FireWire drives are just EIDE drives in a case with USB 2.0/FireWire ports (& interface) on the back. The 400Mb/s or 800Mb/s rating just seems faster because the numbers are bigger. Remember those are mega BITS per second.

FW400 has a top speed of around 40-50 MB/sec
FW800 with a good RAID scenario could reach 95 MB/sec
Lone EIDE drives COULD push 25-30MB/sec - more if you are running RAID.

I highly recommend StorCase technology, buying removable SCSI or IDE trays [DE100 Data Express is the audio industry standard]. You'll get better performance with frames & carriers than silly FireWire & the DE110 is out with SATA support now.

[grivel]

>Lone EIDE drives COULD push 25-30MB/sec - more if you are running RAID.

So remember that, depending on the EIDE model you are using, theoretically certain FireWire scenarios could reach 40-50MB/sec, BUT you are limited by the drive in the case, which is a IDE at 25-30MB/sec, so FW800 is totally useless in this case - of a lone drive.