Reply 20 of 24, by aries-mu
mpe wrote on 2021-11-30, 20:20:Storage controller stuff is complicated. IMHO if backed by solid state device (CF card) it doesn't really matter. Caching makes things slower actually. I don't believe there is a big difference between storage adapters.
Actually you know what? I made an edit to specify better the historical time of my interest (I already have S3 Trio, I know it's great, only it's already beyond the historical time relevant to my nostalgia) and I'll make a whole new thread about this...
One more question for you here if you can: SD cards.
I have already IDE to SD adapters and I found them great. I wonder about SCSI!
I have a great PCI controller... I can find more.... however, there are NO CONVERTERS whatsoever on the planet that go beyond 10 MB/sec SCSI! That v6 SCSI to SD adapter thingy is the best we've got.
Does it make sense to have excellent 40MB/sec or even 80MB/sec and 160MB/sec PCI SCSI controllers if then we gotta bottleneck them down to 10 MB/sec because of the adapter?
I know that the smooth sequential reading performance of solid state memories like SD cards still make them fly compared to spinning drives of the past.... but it makes me wonder if it's worth it to go down the SCSI route, when we can have an UATA 33 or 66 MB/sec (or even 133 MB/sec), with a non-bottlenecked ATA-to-SD adapter and put in there ultra fast SD cards... almost saturating their bandwidth....
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