Warm? - SCSi Western Digital 10K, 80 Pin, U2, 18GB - 159.99

[nightowl]

If you missed the buy.com DOTD then here is another chance for you to get a 10K SCSI drive. Egghead has a Western Digital 18GB SCSI hard drive for $159.99. Now this drive may not have the specs of the Seagate Cheetah but is does cost less and it will smoke any IDE drive.

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Edit: here is a 80 Pin to 68/50 pin adapter for 9.95

 

[BigDog2k]

nightowl: You may want to double check that the adaptor will work with ultra2 drives. You have to get a special on for that

 

[nightowl]

Egghead was packaging this adapter with this drive that they had on auction so I am assuming that it would work. I know that it does not say specifically that it will work though.

 

[vulcanman]

I have been a SCSI user for a very long time and have pitched its attributes to colleagues of mine ... that is until I got me a IBM 75GXP IDE drive. On my 1.1Ghz Athlon I find its performance nothing short of impressive.

If someone can guide me to a speed comparison between the 75GXP series drives and UWSCSI drives ... I would appreciate it.

 

[ChicagoMaroon]

If only these 10K/15K SCSI drives weren't so loud.

 

[Tix]

Vulcanman,
This is a page about SCSI vs. IDE
The performance of IBM 75GXPstops me from changing to SCSI.

 

[CQuinn]

I'd have to question a Tom's article compared to Storagereview

You can also load the drive test results in their database to get a good
idea of performance across a wider range.