Nice! Yeap far too expensive.
Wonder how it stacks up to the more modern nubus scsi cards (jackhammer, atto IV). It looks like it's from an earlier generation than these. The onboard processor + caching might be of more benefit in underpowered mac II style macs.
I remember looking into caching controllers for my (486) dos box, but the consensus from my research seemed to be that so long as you were using a reasonably modern drive (that could deliver data as fast as the bus can operate) it was of minimal/no benefit. Also, you generally only saw caching in ISA controllers & nubus is more like PCI than ISA in terms of speed.
Most modern drives have a ~8MB/16MB cache onboard anyway I guess. Doubling up in this way probably wouldn't yield much benefit.
It'd be one I'd be interested in seeing benchmarks for across a range of macs vs other available cards.
Wonder how it stacks up to the more modern nubus scsi cards (jackhammer, atto IV). It looks like it's from an earlier generation than these. The onboard processor + caching might be of more benefit in underpowered mac II style macs.
I remember looking into caching controllers for my (486) dos box, but the consensus from my research seemed to be that so long as you were using a reasonably modern drive (that could deliver data as fast as the bus can operate) it was of minimal/no benefit. Also, you generally only saw caching in ISA controllers & nubus is more like PCI than ISA in terms of speed.
Most modern drives have a ~8MB/16MB cache onboard anyway I guess. Doubling up in this way probably wouldn't yield much benefit.
It'd be one I'd be interested in seeing benchmarks for across a range of macs vs other available cards.