LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-2

Advantages: reliable, customer service,expandable
Disadvantages: price,accessory

...The particular model my company own is an 8648-4AY It comes with: 1x Xeon 3.0GHz/800MHz (2MB L2 Cache), 1x 512MB PC2-3200 ECC DDR2 SDRAM RDIMM, No disks,1x Broadcom NetXtreme 5721 Gigabit Ethernet, 48x-20x IDE CD-ROM , 1x 530W Power Supply, SVGA (16MB) . What we have as accessories are: IBM ServeRAID-6M Ultra320 SCSI Controller( around £500) 3x146.8 GB 10 000 rpm Ultra320 SCSI hard drives( around £300 each) and a Remote Supervisor Adapter II card ( around £300 ). Packaging and User manual: The server comes with a very good package.User manual ( CD)and IBM Director software included. keyboard and mouse included.The user manual is very good and include details about connections,set up and enviromental set-up ( noise generated,heat and cooling requirement) Set-up: For our particular configuration , we had to create the disk subsystem... Read review

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Advantages: Nice design, easy to use, good quality, convenient interface
Disadvantages: Little noisy, price

...This is my first scanner from Acer. I usually worked with UMAX or Microtek, but never with Acer. Let's see. Complete set consist of the scanner with a slide-adapter, two power supply units, SCSI-adapter on a PCI bus, SCSI-cable, framework for scanning slides and films, manual on fast installation, user's guide, three CD with drivers, software (MiraScan TWAIN-driver 3.20, system of text recognition TextBridge Classic 2.0, utility for copying on the printer Copier 1.2, graphic editor Ulead PhotoExpress 2.0 Special Edition) and electronic manual. The body of the scanner is executed from a light plastic and is supplied with a small flat cover. On the right on a forward board is present large indicator. From the right party of body there is a switch of a power. The cover is lifted up, is fixed in a vertical position and easily can... Read review

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Advantages: A bargain. Easy to install and used. Good entry level SCSI controller.
Disadvantages: No support for higher data rates.

...of the things you can fiddle with in SCSI are pre set on this card I am not sure how useful it would be anyway. In summary, this is a nice little budget SCSI controller, ideal for any users first experience of SCSI. USB2 was mentioned in a comment on my article on the Plextor SCSI cd-writer (thanks bigdgaff). This is a fair point. USB2 is going to be of comparable speed to SCSI (60 mb/s as opposed to 160 MB/sec?), will allow many more devices at once to be attached to your pc and will probrably be integrated onto your motherboard and hence be effectively free. The main disasdavantage is that is is not here yet whereas SCSI is. USB 2 is only the second incarnation of USB whereas SCSI has already been through many, the latest being Ultra160 SCSI, and consequently many more devices are available. I think USB2 will not so much replace SCSI... Read review

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