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.
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?
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.
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.
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