I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
next to nothing about SCSI.
I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives. I
guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter and a controller card
and probably do RAID 0. Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
Kurgan <rols.mcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
> next to nothing about SCSI.
> I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives. I
> guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter and a controller card
> and probably do RAID 0. Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
> question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kurg
there is a simple solution. Buy a big sata disk. If you can't spend money,
don't use SCSI.
On Mar 7, 4:42 pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
> Kurgan <rols....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
> > next to nothing about SCSI.
> > I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives. I
> > guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter and a controller card
> > and probably do RAID 0. Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
> > question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> > Kurg
>
> there is a simple solution. Buy a big sata disk. If you can't spend money,
> don't use SCSI.
Makes complete sense, only thing is that I have two of those drives
now. Just if there is an economic solution for my situation. Thanks
for the comments tho.
Kurgan <rols.mcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 4:42 pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> Kurgan <rols....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>>
>> > I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
>> > next to nothing about SCSI.
>> > I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives. I
>> > guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter and a controller card
>> > and probably do RAID 0. Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
>> > question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> > Kurg
>>
>> there is a simple solution. Buy a big sata disk. If you can't spend money,
>> don't use SCSI.
>
> Makes complete sense, only thing is that I have two of those drives
> now. Just if there is an economic solution for my situation. Thanks
> for the comments tho.
>
> Kurg
sell them to somebody who needs SCA drives.
146GB 15k drives are still current devices, and have value.
"Kurgan" <rols.mcc@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Makes complete sense, only thing is that I have two of those drives
> now. Just if there is an economic solution for my situation. Thanks
> for the comments tho.
>
Just get an Adaptec 29160[N] with cable on ebay, and a pair of LVD SCA adapters.
Each order should be around $20. You won't do better than 120MB/s with any PCI device.
If you wanted high performance, you should have got a PCI-e SAS adapter and disks.
In article <e0c74c0f-0eb0-4ec8-a2b1-84f45cc382fc@34g2000hsz.googlegroups
..com>, Kurgan <rols.mcc@gmail.com> writes
>I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
>next to nothing about SCSI.
>I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives.
Those are server drives; you may find them very noisy in a desktop
system, and they will need good cooling.
> I
>guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter
two
> and a controller card
>and probably do RAID 0.
and a cable with terminator, and additional cooling. You're looking at
spending $100+. Since you don't say whether you want to use PCI or
PCIe, I can't suggest a card.
> Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
>question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
Sell the drives on ebay and use the money to buy a WD Raptor for your
boot drive and games, and buy some beers with the change.
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:12:31 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <e0c74c0f-0eb0-4ec8-a2b1-84f45cc382fc@34g2000hsz.googlegroups
> .com>, Kurgan <rols.mcc@gmail.com> writes
>
>>I'm looking at installing two scsi drives for my OS/GAMES but I don't
>>next to nothing about SCSI.
>>I have two 146 GB 15k RPM Fujitsu MAX3147NC ultra320 80 pin drives.
>
> Those are server drives; you may find them very noisy in a desktop
> system, and they will need good cooling.
>
>> I
>>guess I will need to find a 80 to 68 pin adapter
>
> two
>
>> and a controller card
>>and probably do RAID 0.
>
> and a cable with terminator, and additional cooling. You're looking at
> spending $100+. Since you don't say whether you want to use PCI or
> PCIe, I can't suggest a card.
>
>> Spending a few hundread bucks is out of the
>>question, is there a fairly cheap solution for this configuration?
>
> Sell the drives on ebay and use the money to buy a WD Raptor for your
> boot drive and games, and buy some beers with the change.
All SCSI is server equipment.
I've got a 10K Seagate 74G on this desktop, no extra cooling.
Also a 250G SATA which I use for backing up the SCSI and storing video
etc on.
Go the ebay way for the controller and converters (and terminator?).
Look for a Adaptec 160 card, don't bother with RAID unless you are going
to buy a stack of expensive hardware.
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