[Cialug] Wanted: SCSI Drive

[Nathan C. Smith]

I think SCSI (as I know it) may be dying, with SATA and SAS taking over.
SCSI has always carried a premium.

After I hit send I wondered if you were looking for something perhaps in the
60-120 GB range.

Most of the old server SCSI disks I have are probably 18 GB so those
wouldn't be interesting to you either.  I will look through what I have at
work though just in case.

You could pick up a used Compaq(HP) or other drive in the 75 GB range for a
reasonable cost from serverworlds in Minneapolis if somebody doesn't come up
with something better in the meantime.  (http://www.serverworlds.com)

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Walton [mailto:tdwalton at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:31 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wanted: SCSI Drive
> 
> 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.
> 
> -todd
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