First post, by kreats
I've been thinking how to get a bit more speed out of my 486 and have been considering a faster disk controller. I've been deliberating between either a fast scsi solution (not too keen on this due to noisy scsi drives) or a caching IDE controller. I'm hoping that using a caching IDE controller would eliminate the need to run smartdrv or similar disk caching programs?
Has anyone else tried this? Is the performance benefit (if any) worth it compared to the onboard disk controller (I'm using a PVI486SP3)? Any compatibility concerns? Finally, any recommendations?