SCSI Raid setup

[reiss]

Hi
Am trying to increase my PC's performance and was thinking of having a scsi raid setup.

however, I know nothing about scsi, where you plug the scsi harddrive in, what to get. I know I'd like a couple of 15,000 rpm drives working in raid, but what to get?

anyone have any advice, I currently use a seagate barracuda sata2 drive and am hoping to see a huge performance increase.

thanks

[KarmaKiller]

What Wiki says:

SCSI is available in a variety of interfaces. The first, still very common, was parallel SCSI (also called SPI). It uses a parallel electrical bus design. The traditional SPI design is making a transition to Serial Attached SCSI, which switches to a serial point-to-point design but retains other aspects of the technology. iSCSI drops physical implementation entirely, and instead uses TCP/IP as a transport mechanism. Finally, many other interfaces which do not rely on complete SCSI standards still implement the SCSI command protocol
SCSI interfaces have traditionally been included on computers from various manufacturers for Windows, Mac and Linux environments. However, with the advent of SAS and SATA drives, motherboard manufacturers have moved SCSI connectors off of the board replacing them with the aforementioned connectivity. A handful of companies still market their SCSI interface connectivity for PCIe and PCI-X based motherboards.

Do yo have SATA ports on your MoBo?

[reiss]

yes, i have 4 - 3 are being used. 2 HD & 1 DVD

[KarmaKiller]

Are both of your HDD's you have now the same in specs?
If so, I would just pick up another one of those, and put those into a RAID 5 setup.
You'll get more performance, won't spend alot of money, and still have everything backed up.

[reiss]

thanks for the tip, I was thinking of a sata raid setup too. All my current sata drives are different. Maybe I'll get a couple of rapture drives