SCSI ultra320 PCI card?

No one in the Powermac G4 has answered my question so I thought I'd try here. I recently acquired some SCSI ultra 320 drives and would like to set up a SCSI RAID in my Gigabit Ethernet. Only problem is I can't find a regular PCI card anywhere that supports SCSI ultra 320 that isn't PCI-X since my PCI bus is pre PCI-x. I don't know if there is a solution to this problem or not...I figured people here would know more about SCSI than newer mac users so hopefully someone can help. The only reason I want to do this is because I obtained the drives for free and they are 10,000 RPM which would really gain speed if I used a RAID set with them. If anyone has a solution or insight please let me know...

you say that I will see huge performance gains...but depending on my raid configuration my reads or writes may suffer.
I'm guessing, based on your info, that whichever raid I choose will still have faster read/write times than my IDE drives correct?
The 10,000 RPM drives are faster than any IDE Drive Apple shipped in a G4. IDE did not win over SCSI because it is BETTER. It won because it is CHEAPER. Consumers were not willing to pay the premium for the extra performance -- they wanted higher capacity more than they wanted better performance.
The SCSI drives you have are fast. Making them into a RAID array will make them seem a bit faster. But the issues are complex. This article articulates Apple's simplified position about RAID, Striping, and Mirroring:
article 106594- Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server: How to Use Apple-Supplied RAID Software
the UL3D card will allow me to set up my raid and achieve the fast speeds I am hoping for, but will I gain anything going with the newer cards like the UL4D? Because there is a huge cost difference, like $200.
I don't think you will notice the difference. Honestly, I don't think you will notice the difference between the UL2D and the UL4D. The drive read speed is still the bottleneck today, and making other parts of the system faster does not relieve that bottleneck. Otherwise, we would all be signing up for Fiber-Channel at up to 800 MBytes/sec per channel. And cables that cost about US$40 each.
Along the same lines, would having a card with two independent busses be better than one?
Yes. But you would probably not notice the difference, until you got a handful of drives reading and writing simultaneously. Only then would the transfers start to slow each other down a little.
... a bunch of SCSI cables in there with black boxes on the end of the cables, I'm guessing those are the terminators?
Probably so. SCSI terminators for this application are typically about 1+1/4 inches long and about 2 inches wide. If they are labeled, they should say "LVD" or "LVD/SE".
They're also very long so 8 inches isn't a problem.
Total length is not the issue, you are allowed up to 12 meters (about 36 feet) of cable. The issue is the unusual set-up on the floor of a G4 where the drives are side-by-side with all the connectors facing the same direction. The standard Apple cable used there looks like oragami (Japanese paper-folding). The cables are folded to go up toward the top front of each drive, then over to the next drive, then a double fold to turn the corner but still maintain the connector in the right orientation, then down to the drive connector, then back up and on to the next. You need more than 8 inches between connectors to do all this folding, or you will not be able to reach each drive with successive connectors.

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