15k SCSI w/18gb

[fire400]

http://www.compuvest.com/Description.jsp?iid=129961

 

[rgreen83]

$68 for those interested in the price. Big enough to put windows and a couple games on. Good deal if you already have a scsi controller, too bad they are so expensive though.

 

[MisterJackson]

It'd be cool if they had a clear top so you could see in them like that.

 

[xylem]

Nice price. Keep in mind that it has and 80 pin connector.

 

[gregtor]

why is 80 pin so much cheaper then 68pin?

 

[crapito]

OP: please put the price in your headline. also, there's another drive with the same specs for $52+s/h on the same site.

anyone: know of any cheap SCSI controllers?

 

[Saint Nick]

scsi is a bitch to get drivers for

 

[p0lar]

Originally posted by: jndietz
scsi is a bitch to get drivers for

This is patently false. Modern operating systems support nearly every SCSI chipset.

 

[ncage]

Originally posted by: jndietz
scsi is a bitch to get drivers for

Definitly not true. Both Linux & WIndows have native drivers for LSILogic, QLogic, & Adaptec cards (which are the 3 main brands of scsi adapters). Very easy to get it working with either OS. BTW i prefer LSILogic but thats just my opinion .

 

[Executioner]

Originally posted by: crapito
OP: please put the price in your headline. also, there's another drive with the same specs for $52+s/h on the same site.

anyone: know of any cheap SCSI controllers?

Thanks for that link for this other drive. Personally, I don't like and don't trust Fujitsu drives. The Maxtor Atlas is a very nice drive for the price. I still use SCSI, and I like these small drives as I use them for the boot drive only with some basic apps. Everything else is then installed on IDE drives. It's a bummer that it's the 80 pin variety.

 

[Joony]

80pin drives were meant to be used in hot swap scsi arrays. Everything all in one connector, power, data, and scsi ID. They made a lot of them for enterprise/corporate stuff so this is probably out of corporate lease from retired servers. So they're just cheaper

 

[Steve]

80-pin drives will need one of these.

 

[dexvx]

Fujitsu MAM's are first generation 15K drives and are quite loud.

For a cheap controller, just go on eBay and search for "Adaptec 29160", you can pick one up for around $20.

 

[Steve]

Spend the extra $10-20 and get an LSI U160 card, IMO.

 

[Shaorinor]

SCSI drives...used to run a SCSI HD...the thing ran really hot, though.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
It'd be cool if they had a clear top so you could see in them like that.

I know of no drives sold like that. But you can mod them to be like that

 

[hytek369]

gotta love scsi

 

[GrInD1901]

wouldnt a seagate cheetah 10000rpm 16 mb cache be a better deal though? its about 50 bucks...

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ncage

Originally posted by: jndietz
scsi is a bitch to get drivers for

Definitly not true. Both Linux & WIndows have native drivers for LSILogic, QLogic, & Adaptec cards (which are the 3 main brands of scsi adapters). Very easy to get it working with either OS. BTW i prefer LSILogic but thats just my opinion .

Acutally, both are designed for it

 

[CoolTech]

Originally posted by: Devistater

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
It'd be cool if they had a clear top so you could see in them like that.

I know of no drives sold like that. But you can mod them to be like that

http://www.wdraptorx.com/

 

[lhotdeals]

OMG! I just swapped from my 2x 36gb 10k RPM SCSI 320 HDs to a Raptor 74Gb, now this comes....

Should I drop the Raptor and get 2 of these to put in a Stripped array? would it be faster for games such as WOW? I already have a LSI 320 Controller.

 

[Lifted]

I have a Poweredge with 6 10k 18GB drives at the moment. $300 for 15k upgrade sounds like a good deal to me! I might even upgrade the 2 9GB drives holding the OS to these since I only have like 1GB free on those. That would be more of a pain and require partition magic or similar, but still a hot deal for that old file server.

 

[compcons]

As far as raptors go, it's not just about the spindle speed, cache, and transfer rate. SCSI has a queue depth of 16, versus ATA/SATA which has a queue depth of 0. SCSI has far more I/O than ATA. Taht is why the total I/O gets to be significantly faster than ATA, even on older 7200 and 10k SCSI devices.

EH

 

[Vegito]

I use this.. makes computer neater.. but only if you got drive bay to waste..

http://www.scsi4me.com/product_info.php?cPath=4_12&products_id=919

 

[VooDooAddict]

Originally posted by: CoolTech
http://www.wdraptorx.com/

So tempting ...