what would you do with this scsi drive bay???

[aircooled]

I have an older scsi drive bay with 6 2gig baracuda's in it. i dont have a scsi card so it's of no use right now. My options are to get a scsi card and: build a "toy" computer to play with it and do just that "play" with it. or I could hook it up to the home network and use it as some kind of storage. or I could just gut the thing and pop 2 of them in my main rig and run my OS off of them at raid0.

Should I even bother??? most modern IDE drives are probably faster.. but if I hook 'em up to a raid card, raid0 might be pretty quick.

Any idea's??? be creative... I'm open to hearing opinions and idea's....

 

[MichaelD]

Hey man, that's pretty cool! Was this just lying around? Wow, neat stuff. Are these 10K drives? Two of those on a nice SCSI card w/RAID 0 would rock and roll. You've already got the computer and the HDs, those are the two most expensive parts. I'd go for the OS on the RAID! A nice 10,000RPM, 12 gig drive is a NICE toy.

 

[aircooled]

yeah, they were donatations from work when we upgraded servers.

I think they are just 7200 rpm drives, but should still be great seek times in raid0.

Whats a good inexpensive scsi card to hook 'em up to??

 

[MichaelD]

Don't know anything about SCSI, sorry. I'm currently in the process of getting educated on how to successfully setup an IDE RAID array...been quite the pain in the butt, too! I'm a bit behind the times....good luck to you and your toys!

 

[bigbootydaddy]

what # of pins??

anything adaptec

 

[aircooled]

The cables that came with the drive bay are 50 pin. Nothing adaptec, just a drive bay and 6 drives. I assume a can buy an adaptec card, but I don't really have any scsi experience, so I'm not sure what to get.