$50 or a SCSI non-raid controller and two IBM 4.5 gig drives

[fury]

Which would you choose?

 

[Professur]

That would depend on wether I needed 9 gig of SCSI drives.

 

[tommyj27]

what scsi spec are they?

 

[fury]

Beats me. The drives are actually 5430mb but the closest thing I could find on Pricewatch is 4.5, and the only 5.4 gig listed on IBM's (Hitachi's?) site is an IDE drive.

They don't take 50-pin connectors though. Looks more like a parallel port compressed and with more pins packed in. I dunno if that helps.

 

[Gonz]

take the $50. & run. It's gettting too complicated:

They don't take 50-pin connectors though. Looks more like a parallel port compressed and with more pins packed in. I dunno if that helps

 

[tommyj27]

are they external units? if they are i'm with gonz, sounds like it's getting expensive too...

 

[fury]

No, they're internal. I just thought it'd be neat to try them out. But I guess judging from the less than encouraging reaction, they're not worth the $50?

 

[fury]

I saw the card (Adaptec 2940something) on Pricewatch for $30 and two IBM 4.5 drives for $15 each which is what prompted me to try and go for this combo.

 

[PT]

I'd take the 50. You can buy 80 gigs of drive for 100, and those sound old, probably slow.

 

[fury]

OK. I'm prolly gonna need the extra $50 to be able to afford this Radeon 9800 Pro anyway. My paycheck is gonna be around $360 plus $11 for gas used on service calls, and I only have $14 in my wallet right now.

 

[fury]

Wait a minute... Late april ETA? WTF? Fuck that shit...

 

[Gonz]

I only have $14 in my wallet right now.

I'd like to be the first one to officially welcome you to the world of "making a living". My condolences.

 

[tommyj27]

if i remember the card right it's am ultra2 or an ultra wide card 40mb/s i think, it'd be nice to play with but not really useful.

 

[Professur]

Card wise, you can do a lot better. Now if there were three or four drives like that, you could learn how to make RAIDs.

 

[tommyj27]

that'd be nice i was thinking about that last fall with an array of full height 5.25" 20gb disks. it's kind of difficult finding chassis space for 5 8lb. beasts though

 

[Professur]

Do you have any Mechano? I've used my old Mechano bits to build drive supports before.

 

[tommyj27]

no, is it similar to erector sets or legos?

 

[PT]

I'm thinking erector sets. You could build a nice drive assembly out of an erector set.

 

[fury]

Whaddya think, two of these?

http://www.buyxtremegear.com/wesdig12728m.html

 

[PT]

Probably be enough space for awhile, yep.