Anybody still using SCSI?

[Hi-Fi Man]

To be clear not SAS but good old 8 or 16 bit parallel SCSI. I've got a few 15k U320 SCA drives lying around that are brand new (some made in 2012!). Would it be worth using any of these still? I've got an adaptec PCI HBA but if I were to use these in my workstation I'd need to buy a PCIe HBA.

 

[Burpo]

If you've got the drives & feel like setting them up, you can find PCI-e adapters pretty cheap..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Atto-Ex...398525?hash=item4b189b9c7d:g:Q7EAAOSwtGlZLHuq

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATTO-Techno...930558?hash=item33d0a6e4be:g:HOgAAOSwIjJZPwPj

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

What about some of the LSI HBAs out there? Any good?

 

[XavierMace]

Define "worth using". Even an array of 15k drives aren't going to come close to the performance of a single SSD. The drives themselves are loud and power hungry. Personally I wouldn't touch them.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Define "worth using". Even an array of 15k drives aren't going to come close to the performance of a single SSD. The drives themselves are loud and power hungry. Personally I wouldn't touch them.

Perhaps but I would rather not let these go to waste. These drives in particular (Cheetah 15K.5s) aren't too loud and aren't too bad on power consumption for an HDD.

 

[aigomorla]

i would assume even a flash drive could have more storage capacity then your U320 drives in R0....

There is no point in running those drives.
You have a 6800K, which has Sata 6G. At that point a modern 4TB+ drive would spank those U320 SCSI drives.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

i would assume even a flash drive could have more storage capacity then your U320 drives in R0....

There is no point in running those drives.
You have a 6800K, which has Sata 6G. At that point a modern 4TB+ drive would spank those U320 SCSI drives.

600GB isn't bad, I mean sure they're old as crap but I just can't let them go to waste. Funny enough, my 5TB Deskstar NAS drive gets up to ~220MiB/s on sequential transfers whereas my Cheetah can only manage ~125MiB/s however, it's access times are much better and it responds to random workloads better.

 

[sdifox]

nope, ebay those drives for people that run servers and get SSDs.

 

[JimKiler]

I remember you could pick up 10-30GB SCSI drives that were 15K RPM's for $10 when the market was done with SCSI, crazy that you still have some and even a 600GB. How much did those cost you?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

nope, ebay those drives for people that run servers and get SSDs.

This.

It's not about going to waste. If you use them in a desktop rig, you're wasting them. Also you're suffering.

 

[rchunter]

I wouldn't. I cleaned out my cable drawer the other day and threw away a crap ton of old scsi & firewire cables.

 

[whm1974]

I'm really surprised that someone here still has SCSI drives still around. The only place I even expect to see those is old server that was forgotten about and should bee replaced ASAP.

 

[JimKiler]

I'm really surprised that someone here still has SCSI drives still around. The only place I even expect to see those is old server that was forgotten about and should bee replaced ASAP.

Or if you are working for the US government then I would not be surprised you are still running SCSI.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Or if you are working for the US government then I would not be surprised you are still running SCSI.

I'm part of an Air Force radio shop and yeah we have some old SCSI stuff out in our shed. Most of it is for old Motorola LMR systems.

These Cheetahs are still suprisingly quick for hard drives. Kind of interesting that Seagate made these SCSI drives as recently as 2012 maybe even later.