What is the point of SCSI in a Mac Pro

[jasonrudolph]

This is also the big reason as to why solid state drives (SSD's) are on everyone's watch list. As the prices come down, they will have a huge impact, as there are no moving parts, so while pure read and write throughput doesn't go up very much (if at all) compared to today's harddrives, their random access times are much better.

[samsc]

i have just begun testing an MTRON 32GB SATA SSD drive.
SATA means it can be plugged into any G5. Intel needs a SATA extension, until i find a drive tray adaptor.

SSD have very variable performance - they arent all fast. at all.
The SAMSUNG SSDs are only available with IDE interfaces. i have one - and the IDE interface is the limit to its performance.

MTRON drives are more expensive but much faster.
http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

Tests in my quad g5 show its almost as fast as scsi on most codecs - but can playback more than 10 dv layers at once (SCSI does about 7 ) . without any problems.

[Peter]

i have just begun testing an MTRON 32GB SATA SSD drive.
SATA means it can be plugged into any G5. Intel needs a SATA extension, until i find a drive tray adaptor.

SSD have very variable performance - they arent all fast. at all.
The SAMSUNG SSDs are only available with IDE interfaces. i have one - and the IDE interface is the limit to its performance.

MTRON drives are more expensive but much faster.
http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

Tests in my quad g5 show its almost as fast as scsi on most codecs - but can playback more than 10 dv layers at once (SCSI does about 7 ) . without any problems.

Will this mean that any G5 will do, included the G5 1.8 PCI-X?

[samsc]

Will this mean that any G5 will do, included the G5 1.8 PCI-X?

no. of course not.

i have no idea. i dont have one.

because cpu speed is important as well.

[Peter]

Here you'll find some caddy's and sleds :

http://www.transintl.com/