--- On Mon, 5/4/09, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the waning days of SCSI, there was some interesting
> products.
>
> The old 1, 2, 4 and 9 GB drives have given way to 18 and 36
> GB, and,
> later, to 72 GB, each in a 68-pin form factor (LVD/SE for
> the later
> ones).
>
> I bought a few Quantum Atlas 10K drives, and also some
> Fujitsu 10K
> drives. These, understandably, ran pretty hot.
I'd like to lay hands on a few 72gig SCA80 SCSI drives. Not too long ago they
were selling for a few bucks for a box of drives, but lately the market has
been flooded with late 90's and early 00's servers- which paranoid companies
have kept the drives from. (And LAZY IT departments that couldn't be bothered
to remove the drives from the trays they no longer have a use for!)
Thus older SCS80 drives and server drive trays have gone way up in price even
as they get more obsolete.
Picked up a GEN 1 quad 700Mhz PIII Xeon ProLiant DL380 from Micron for FREE. No
drives or trays, lazy bastards. All they had to do was boot it with Darik's
Boot and Nuke CD! :(
I made a 3D model of the SCA80 backplane, shouldn't be too difficult to make a
passive SATA backplane and ditch the entire SCSI setup in favor of a PCI-X (not
PCIe) SATA RAID card.
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