SCSI Help. How to hook up?

[-iLLuZioN-B18C1]

Im completely new to SCSI, please bear with me. A coworker was giving away 2 SCSI, seagates, each 33 gb each i believe (i left them at work) and it was either 10k or 15k rpm.

Anyways, if i were to do a fresh build, can i use these? what would i need for them to work. i see they have a different connection type.

any additional info i might need would be helpful

Thanks in advance

 

[TheChaoticFlame]

You will need a SCSI controller card, or a motherboard with integrated SCSI support. Unless you're building a server, I think the card is your best option. The specific card you'll need depends on the precise connector type of the drives, I think there are at least two different types of internal SCSI connector, and I know that there are quite a few external ones.

New, a controller card from newegg will run you at least $70. I would shop around for a better deal, maybe get an old one on ebay.

Other than that, you'll need the cables specific for the drive type. In my experience, people usually use SCSI drives for RAID configurations, with two drives you can either go mirrored or stripe the drives together.

 

[Xeth]

Old SCSI drives without a controller is worthless IMO, for the price of a controller you can buy a modern SATA drive that blows away the performance and size of those drives in RAID 0.

 

[jordan12]

Old SCSI drives without a controller is worthless IMO, for the price of a controller you can buy a modern SATA drive that blows away the performance and size of those drives in RAID 0.

This guy speaks the truth...

 

[Shockey]

Are there different connectors for SAS drives also then, Or are they all the same?


sorry for thread hijacking