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47gb scsi drive at Surpluscomputers

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I know this has probably already been posted but I couldn't find it with a search. I was wondering if anyone has ordered one of these drives, its been on pricewatch for a while. I would like to get a couple but I'm afraid to take a chance with the as-is. Its a seagate 47gb scsi drive for $13.99 plus shipping.

http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_hd_ST446442W.html
 
It's a good price if you've got a ton of physical space. This is full-height. Think the size of two CD-ROM drives...

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that their shipping seems to be per-item. It's almost the price of the drive over again to ship it...
 
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
It's a good price if you've got a ton of physical space. This is full-height. Think the size of two CD-ROM drives...

EDIT: Also worth mentioning that their shipping seems to be per-item. It's almost the price of the drive over again to ship it...
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I was going by the price they have for shipping on pricewatch.com when I was interested in it, turns out it is the price of the drive over again to ship to me, and it is $6 more than the shipped price on pricewatch.
 
You'll need a SCSI-2 fast/wide controller or better. It's probably not differential SCSI.

Note: this drive will be slower than just about any modern 3.5" EIDE drive on the market, and will use much more power. Add in the requirement of a SCSI card and (plus the fact that their 'As-is' and personally I wouldn't spend the money. Wait for a deal on a 120 GB EIDE drive for $60, we see these every other week or so.

Steve
 
Originally posted by: smw
You'll need a SCSI-2 fast/wide controller or better. It's probably not differential SCSI.

Note: this drive will be slower than just about any modern 3.5" EIDE drive on the market, and will use much more power. Add in the requirement of a SCSI card and (plus the fact that their 'As-is' and personally I wouldn't spend the money. Wait for a deal on a 120 GB EIDE drive for $60, we see these every other week or so.

Steve
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So so true on the slowness...
 
If they are that slow then it really does kill the deal on these drives, I'm not going to take the chance on the as-is from this company, I doubt they are even actual refurbished drives, probably just system pulls. Why would a company need to sell a freshly refurbished drive as-is? I wanted to take advantage of my onboard scsi and fill up some space in my huge tower case, but ill just wait a for a nice ide deal.
 
Drives good for large storage, especially if you either use it as a mass store device (ie, very slow) or RAID a bunch together. It's not super fast, and it doesn't deliver high data transfer rates. The price is about average. The size is another problem - can only stick 7 in my 14 bay case. I'd rather have 14 HH drives, with about 4 times the speed and data transfer (even if the storage is about 20% less)

Several vendors have been selling refurbs of these for months. The full height has kept me from buying any of them. HH drives, now there'd be a reason to purchase.
 
I had a 9Gb one of these, for like $5, it's slow as Hell (just replaced it with an 80GB IDE) and uses 2 CD-ROM bays and lots of power, also it's a non-standard connector (can't remember which). Not really SCSI as we know it.....
 
Also - remember that with power comes heat. Thes drives will keep you warm over the winter.
 
Originally posted by: simo
I had a 9Gb one of these, for like $5, it's slow as Hell (just replaced it with an 80GB IDE) and uses 2 CD-ROM bays and lots of power, also it's a non-standard connector (can't remember which). Not really SCSI as we know it.....
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actually it uses a standard power connector, and a standard 68-pin SCSI interface, yeah nonstandard if you are running IDE.
 
Originally posted by: SharkyTM
Originally posted by: simo
I had a 9Gb one of these, for like $5, it's slow as Hell (just replaced it with an 80GB IDE) and uses 2 CD-ROM bays and lots of power, also it's a non-standard connector (can't remember which). Not really SCSI as we know it.....
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actually it uses a standard power connector, and a standard 68-pin SCSI interface, yeah nonstandard if you are running IDE.
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