ADAPTEC AHA-2940U ULTRA SCSI: Keep it, or?

[3des]

I'm planning on upgrading my PC/DAW from scratch and wondering if there is any value in keeping the adaptec I have for the new DAW or just go all IDE.

I don't want to buy a new SCSI adapter (see: can't afford), but I will need to buy two new drives for the new system (maybe raid, but definitely one for backups), so I'm just not sure if there is any price/peformance value in keeping the Adaptec, or is it already old enough that it'll be the performance bottleneck? Maybe an IDE/SCSI mix?

Thanks,

~+~ 3des ~+~

 

[christiaan]

is it already old enough that it'll be the performance bottleneck?

YES! It will only transfer up to 20MB/s. Any new IDE hard drive does more than double that, sustained.
Keep it if you have scsi peripherals like cdrom players/burners but follow the IDE path for your hard drives.

 

[Badger]

modern Ide drives are faster than the that particular interface is capable of. It was the shit a few years ago, not its good fro scanners and such.

 

[3des]

Re: Re: ADAPTEC AHA-2940U ULTRA SCSI: Keep it, or?

YES! It will only transfer up to 20MB/s. Any new IDE hard drive does more than double that, sustained.
Keep it if you have scsi peripherals like cdrom players/burners but follow the IDE path for your hard drives.

That was he spec I was looking for, thanks!

I guess the old DAW becomes my new Linux server and Linux audio test machine, it's been a while since I ran Linux at home anyway, and Apache on Wn98 is pretty pathetic, plus I've been interested in playing around with the Linux audio/DAW possibilities:

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/index.html

http://www.agnula.org/ *

*Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass).


Thanks again.