I am looking to build and external raid tower, and am looking at older scsi-2 wide drives, and some 80 pin SCA drives are cheap because they are designed to be hot-swappable. I am wondering what it would take to build a maxed out array of such drives in terms of adapters and cables, to make an external connection go to an enclosure that has the max number of drives in a raid array.
I've seen 80pin to 68 pin adapters, and know they cost a bit cuz they run power. Bear in mind, i want to max out one channel, which i think means up to 16 drives, which i just may do.
I know i need the scsi card, but what cable would i need to run to the external case? Also, I am wondering since scsi-2 wide is rated at 80mb/s but upward compatible to ultra 160, if a u160 card would be able to run a raid at 160mb/s.
I've seen 80pin to 68 pin adapters, and know they cost a bit cuz they run power. Bear in mind, i want to max out one channel, which i think means up to 16 drives, which i just may do.
I know i need the scsi card, but what cable would i need to run to the external case? Also, I am wondering since scsi-2 wide is rated at 80mb/s but upward compatible to ultra 160, if a u160 card would be able to run a raid at 160mb/s.
