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Seagate Barracuda 9 SCSI drives useful? ST19171W

Jeff7181

Jeff7181

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I just built someone a new computer and they gave me their old one, which was given to them. Turns out it's a Dell PowerEdge 2200 server. It has 3 SCSI drives in it... the model numbers are ST19171W. According to Seagate they are Ultra Wide 9.1 GB, 7200 RPM drives with 9.7ms seek time and have 11 platters. There's 3 of them, so I bet they would make a pretty fast RAID 5 array, even by today's standards. I'm using the SCSI driver utilities right now to check them for errors... but the computer was majorly f-ed up. They deleted some stuff and Windows wouldn't recognize the mouse and keyboard anymore, so you couldn't do anything... and I can't find Windows 2000 drivers for the SCSI controller... so I can't reformat and reinstall. So I think I'm gonna part it out... but basically, what I want to know is if these drives are of any value/use anymore?
 
That's an UW 40MB/s SCSI, with only 512KB buffer. It's too slow comparing to a typical U100, 7200 RPM, 2MB buffer HDD. It's better if you use with a RAID card. Unless you already have a SCSI RAID card; with the same money, you can buy an 8MB buffer drive with the capacity of at least 40MB.
 
Well, I know they're obviously not worth what they were brand new, especially since they're most likely out of warranty since I believe the computer was from '97. But of what value are they now?
 
You can have the same one with 80pin SCA for $5.99
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http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_65gbhdrive.html
 
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