Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:54:51 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NCR or Adaptec? Message-ID: <199508161024.TAA28491@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508160823.BAA18985@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 16, 95 01:23:35 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Rodney W. Grimes stands accused of saying: > > > > > I'm in the process of speccing up my new PCI wonderbox, and I'm > > looking for commentary on the relative merits of NCR 53C810 vs. Adaptec > > 2940 when it comes to PCI SCSI controllers. > > My benchmarks on running ``make world'' on the exact same system, only > chang being swapping an ASUS SC-200 for an adaptec 2940 showed a 10 minute > delta in favor of the adaptec on a 3 hour 27 minute run time. Thanks Rod, I've spent the change I've saved here on a CDU76S; I wanted a CDROM but couldn't keep it under $7500 8) > > The particular NCR card I'm being quoted on is the ASUS PCI SC200. > > Hope your not paying too much down in .au land for this stuff! Likewise : I don't think so - the 2940 is about $350 and the ASUS is ~$280 less. > Given you are talking to a single disk drive, I doubt that the > AHA2940 is worth the $300.00. The place this controller starts to > pull away seriously from the NCR card is in either 3 or more disks > on 1 controller, or 3 or more controllers on the PCI bus. One, possibly two disks down the track. I wanted to try the multi-disk approach, but for the price of four of the 500M quantums I got a Hawk-4, and the space is vital... > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Thanks for the advice. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199508161024.TAA28491>