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Seagate Cheetah 9.1gb 10k rpm for $18.

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just posting if someone finds it useful, taken from another site. not sure if there are better deals for similarly sized disks?

anyone know of a cheap scsi controller card pci for this?


Used Seagate Cheetah 9.1GB SCSI 10k rpm for $18
10:04 am ET, May 30, 2003
UpgradeZones.com lowered its price on the used Seagate Cheetah 9.1GB UltraWide SCSI 10,000 rpm internal hard drive, model no. ST39102LC, to $18. That's $2 off our last mention and $29 less than the best price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit. Add $4 for shipping. A 90-day reseller warranty applies.
[*]http://upgradezones.com/products/view.asp?id=3126
 
That's an okay deal, but a used' drive? eh. Just go with IDE, they are cheaper now and are getting close to in performance, ie WD's SATA raptor? A scsi card will cost you about $30 - $60 bucks, making it NOT worth it unless you already have scsi cards and cable.

David
 
I forgot to mention it's also an 80 pin drive, so unless you have a hotswap server case, you'll need one of those 80-68 pin adapter which are toublesome, at least from my experience.

David
 
Originally posted by: iliopsoas
80-->68 pin adapter will cost you $10-15 already. Not worth it.
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Maybe not for you because you are probably an IDE fanboy..

An IDE drive will never (at least not for a long while) be in the same class as almost any SCSI drive.. SCSI drives are much more reliable and multitask MUCH better making for the ideal server storage solution. This is a nice price on a nice drive.
 
I found some benchmarks, its peak transfer is ~30mb/s, compared to a WD which gets almost 50mb/s.

Not really a good deal when you include the cost of the adapter.
 
I think most scsi's shine in the random access dept. They used to lead in STR, but these days, ide's outpace the scsi's by a long shot.

For random access, and when there's a bunch of drives, scsi still gets the upper hand.

9GB drives are probably good for a boot drive, or possibly a raid setup. Otherwise, ide is the better value.

 
Originally posted by: RDMustang1
Originally posted by: iliopsoas
80-->68 pin adapter will cost you $10-15 already. Not worth it.
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Maybe not for you because you are probably an IDE fanboy..

An IDE drive will never (at least not for a long while) be in the same class as almost any SCSI drive.. SCSI drives are much more reliable and multitask MUCH better making for the ideal server storage solution. This is a nice price on a nice drive.
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I find that funny because of the 8 ide hard drives I've had (some are more than 4 years old and used daily) none have ever failed on me, however of the two scsi hard drives I have, one has already failed and it was in the same enviorement as a ide hard drive that received a bulk of the punishment.

Now I'm not saying you are wrong but rather that your statement is rather bold. There has also been a movement lately to move to an ide storage solution because they are cheaper. While that doesn't mean that ide is better it does mean that the line between scsi and ide is getting blury.

And to add to this thread.

I think this place will have more enticing offers;



http://centrix-intl.com/
 
Originally posted by: GPz1100
I think most scsi's shine in the random access dept. They used to lead in STR, but these days, ide's outpace the scsi's by a long shot.
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no they dont -

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 (40 GB ATA-133) - 60.2 MB/s
Fujitsu MAS3735 (73 GB Ultra320 SCSI) - 78.6 MB/s

http://www.storagereview.com/
they are each the fastest drive of their respective interfaces.
 
Performance aside, SCSI rules when it comes to reliability. About 6 years ago I switched my boot drives over to SCSI at considerable expense and have never looked back.

This is an ok deal for someone who already has a server with a hot swap setup AND who is in need of more drives but for the average user, well, no thanks.
 
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