[Cialug] Wanted: SCSI Drive

[James Shoemaker]

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Todd Walton wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2007 12:45 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>> What is moderate, and do you need a specific form-factor for the connectors?
>>
>> I have a new/unused Western digital 9.5 GB and no plans to use it.
> 
> Aiee.  9.5 GB is not moderate, per my unspecified and fuzzy definition
> of moderate.  What's funny is I was thinking "I should specify
> moderate" when I wrote the email.  But I thought "I'll just see what
> people propose first".  But, thinking about it now, I could easily
> have specified that I need at least 20 or 30 GB.  More would be nice,
> if I could afford it.
> 
> Now there again.  Aiee.  I could specify what I could afford!...  But
> I don't know what going prices are.  Are SCSI disks a dying breed?
> IDE and its ilk are so affordabe these days that one wonders if
> massive and multitudinous IDE disks aren't the future.
> 
> But I have a (gifted) SCSI server box that I want to make work for my
> home network.  I've installed Apache and Mediawiki and suddenly oops!
> I've hit the wall storage wall.

  You can get SCA server pulls pretty reasonable on the internet.  I
have a pair of 10K 73G's I paid something like $40 each for.  Check
pricewatch.

James
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