From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 2:35:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f10.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D69337B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:35:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:35:33 -0800 Received: from 24.116.158.21 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:35:33 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.116.158.21] From: "Charles Burns" To: achornback@worldnet.att.net, anthony@atkielski.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SCSI card recommendations Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:35:33 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2001 10:35:33.0393 (UTC) FILETIME=[41404010:01C16DC1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Charles, if you plan to run more than one drive on that controller, or go >to a U160 drive in the future, it's not a bad investment. Consider that >you >could put 2 80 MB/s drives on that controller, run vinum and see a >performance gain... > I ended up getting a 29160 (not 29160N). Difference being: It's a 64-bit card vs 32-bit, has a denser internal connector, and is...cheaper(?!) $200 for a SCSI card still makes me feel queasy, though. :-\ Now I'll feel compelled to get one of those "3x the cost per MB vs IDE" drives as soon as I recover. Computers... (sigh) Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message