Older SCSI

[PANiC_nz]

ive recently been given a Adaptec AHA-2940AU and a IBM DNES-309170.

SCSI Card:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2FProduct%2FAHA-2940AU&prodkey=AHA-2940AU
HDD :
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/ultra/ul18es.htm

I have no experienve what so ever with SCSI and would like to know from some of the more knowledgeable members out there if this combo is any good? e.g how would it compare to a 7200rpm 2mb cache ATA100 drive on a nForce 2 mobo? Is it worth keeping? Will it give me better preformance in games e.t.c?

[mird-OC]

The perceivable difference to you would be minimal...

Transfer rates will be about the same, burst rates will be lower, seek times will be similar or slower, it'll make more noise, and it's rather small. What it does have which will define the difference is command queuing, and also quite possibly lower CPU utilisation.

By all means, try it out. You may be pleasantly surprised (or not).

[MaZeR]

For simplicities sake you could always just get it up and running and put say 400MB of swap on that, 400MB on your current drive and just use the rest of the drive for occasional accessed storage. That is the simplest way to improve your systems performance using any spare drive.