ATA card

[Jeff Vian]

Prasanth Kumar wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:26 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>>>James Kosin wrote:
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>>>>>>Homer wrote:
>>>>>>|     Ok, out of space in the onboard ATA controller... Looking for
>>>>>>| recommendations for a PCI ATA card... Doesn't need RAID or anything,
>>>>>>| just well supported in FC2 to add more drives...
>>>>>>|
>>>>>>Homer,
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>>>>>>You should really be looking at SCSI if you want more drives.  With 
>>>>>>SCSI
>>>>>>you can have up to 7+ drives.
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>>>>>Scsi2 is up to 8 devices.  Ultra-scsi is up to 16 devices per 
>>>>>controller.  Most modern controllers and drives are ultra-scsi.
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>>>>>I just recently built a box with 9 scsi drives on a single 
>>>>>controller. The price was right and the biggest problem was a case 
>>>>>capable of holding that many drives. 18GB scsi drives are readily 
>>>>>available for about $10 each.
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>>>><tongue-in-cheek>
>>>>Really?  Where?  $10!  Wow!
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>>>>Methinks he means $100 and that's rather optimistic.  I'd say about
>>>>$180 or so (US dollars).
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>>>Hey Rick,
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>>>Try  :-)  http://www.softwareandstuff.com/hdwstorage.html  :-)
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>>>I was not kidding.....  
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>>According to that you aren't.  These are new?  Not refurbished or
>>"ripped out of old machines"?  Geeze!  :-O  (bookmarked!)
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>This store is somewhat near my workplace. I go there once in a while.
>Lots of neat stuff sometimes. Most of the stuff is surplus. Some new and
>some used stuff. Mostly obsolete by today's standards. At $10 it is
>probably a refurbished drive at best.
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Each item says new or refurbished.  Shop at your own discretion.


However, for $10 each you can afford to have some percentage bad and 
still pay less than new prices for the good ones.  I have had good luck 
with the drives.   YMMV