SCSI Setup

[jayp6969]

I have western digital 40 gig if i get another of the same drive and a raid card i could have a scsi setup????

[thingsforjason]

if it's a SCSI drive, i don't see why not. :) but it doesn't sound like your WD is a SCSI drive.... :D

[jayp6969]

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Originally posted by thingsforjason

if it's a SCSI drive, i don't see why not. :) but it doesn't sound like your WD is a SCSI drive.... :D

yea its not but i head if u have 2 of the same drives and attach it to a raid card that it will come up as one drive and will run reallly fast

[thingsforjason]

sure, if you got another drive and a raid card you could set that up, but that doesn't turn your drives into SCSI :)

[Geronimo]

there is more involved then just getting to two similiar hard drives and a SCSI controller. you need to SCSI hard drives and a SCSI controller. However for a home user, you would not see a difference in performance at all.

[GUNNER]

Well I run all scsi with no problems. I have an Adaptec 2916n controller two segate 18 gig one seagate 9 gig and one wd 4 gig.

One tosh cd one tosh dvd one ultra plex one plex 12/4/32 and a yama 4/4/16 and one hp 4c. And yes you do notice a performance increase. If you want raid your sys then you should have all drives the same size manufacture does not matter.

[jayp6969]

what happens if the drives arnt the same????? it wont work???

[GUNNER]

Basically a Raid stripes (2 or more) the drives as one. If you have 2 40 gigs it will regester one 80gig. I used to have a comp. with a Perk 5 Raid controler with 4 36 gig drives and it saw the drives as one, sold it short on cash. Raid is good for saving your data if drive crashes just pull it out and stick in a new one with no data loss.