I am in the process of designing a pair of workstaions for the office and am triying to decide which drive setup will best serve our purposes and give us the best bang-for-the-buck drive performance.
My workstation will be used for creating maps in AutoDesk 6. Each map contains high-resolution color aerial photographs in the one to two gigabyte range.
The other workstation will be used for creating water drainage and groundwater models--which also involves large file sizes.
The price of either system is around $2,200. Each will run Windows XP Professional and will utilize Xeon DP (533mhz FSB) 2.4Ghz socket 604 processors.
If I go SCSI, I will use a Supermicro X5DPL-8GM motherboard with an on-board Adaptec AIC-7902 133mhz/66bit U320 controller (1066 MB/sec bandwidth) and a single Seagate 15K rpm U320 36Ghz drive as the primary C:/.
If I go UDMA, I will use a Supermicro X5DAE motherboard, a HighPoint Rocket RAID133 controller and a pair of Maxtor 6Y080P0 80GB 7200rpm 8MB Diamond Max drives.
Two Questions:
(1) Which is a faster, better, more bang-for-the-buck setup for what we are doing with each workstation?
(2) Do you know of anyone on the web who has recent real-world SCSI vs UDMA RAID-0 comparsions posted?
Thanks a lot!
Ken