29 Aug
2005
29 Aug
'05
2:16 p.m.
Just
do a search on Google or eBay
for "SCA SCSI" (loose the quotes).
If you look on pricewatch you can find new 9GB SCA drives for $15.
They only get expensive if you are looking for 72GB or 144GB drives.
Eric
How much should I expect to pay?
Depends on where you get the drive, and how big. I typically get
used ones for free. A new one will run you anywhere from $200 on up. 
30 Aug
30 Aug
8:22 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:16:15 -0700
Eric J Korpela <korpela at gmail.com> wrote:
Oooh, now you have me wanting to cram my 'IBM PC Server 704' (a huge
quad Pentium Pro server with a bunch of SCA slots on the front) *which
is almost, if not already, nominally 'on-topic' here* full of cheap
drives.
Just do a search on
Google or eBay
for "SCA SCSI" (loose the quotes).
If you look on pricewatch you can find new 9GB SCA drives for $15.
They only get expensive if you are looking for 72GB or 144GB drives.
Eric
How much should I expect to pay?
Depends on where you get the drive, and how big. I typically get
used ones for free. A new one will run you anywhere from $200 on
up. 
8:57 p.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
Oooh, now you have me wanting to cram my 'IBM PC
Server 704' (a huge
quad Pentium Pro server with a bunch of SCA slots on the front) *which
is almost, if not already, nominally 'on-topic' here* full of cheap
drives.
Actually, I have *two* of these beasts, and the price of SCA 73.4GB hard
drives on ebay have now come down enough, so I have 12 (!) 73.4GB hard
drives in each, with hardware RAID.
They both run NetBSD very, very, very fast. Four processors each, 1GB
RAM each. Each has a 2-channel RAID card with each channel running half
the array. The on-board SCSI controller runs the boot disk on one
channel, and the CD-ROM on the other.
Peace... Sridhar
9:10 p.m.
On 8/30/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I have *two* of these beasts, and the price
of SCA 73.4GB hard
drives on ebay have now come down enough, so I have 12 (!) 73.4GB hard
drives in each, with hardware RAID.
Wahoo! My largest drives are half that. Maybe on my next upgrade cycle.
-ethan
9:37 p.m.
On 8/30/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
<sigh!> My VMS server is currently running with 6 18GB drives, 4 of which
are volume shadowed. In my next disk upgrade I'm hoping to move to either
36GB or 50GB drives.
Zane
Actually, I have *two* of these beasts, and the
price of SCA 73.4GB hard
drives on ebay have now come down enough, so I have 12 (!) 73.4GB hard
drives in each, with hardware RAID.
Wahoo! My largest drives are half that. Maybe on my next upgrade cycle.
-ethan
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