Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: *HAVE* SCSI drives, want only controller. Best bang for buck == ? Message-ID: <2272@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 27 Nov 90 18:46:48 GMT Lines: 25 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>>Anybody know where I can get the most bang for the buck in a SCSI controller? >>>Without case? (Most of the ones I've seen accomodate only the 3 1/2" drives). >> >>It would help enormously if you told us which machine you are planning on >>plugging the controller into. > >Yes, quite sorry for the omission. It's an A500. I've gotten some offers >of used equipment already (as well as the expected "Sell US some of those >drives you've got such a surplus of!"), but am still interested in what >people have to say on the topic of unbundled controllers. >From everything I have heard, the A590 is the best deal for performance, though to get that performance, you should probably have another drive hooked to it. Keep the 20 meg and use it for stuff you don't need to access quickly. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+