some SCSI stuff: is it junk?

[senakun]

someone gave me a bunch of scsi drives and some pci cards. i was wondering if this could be useful like raid scratch drives or temp drives for video processing or something. if they are useful, i would put them in my 3rd rig that i use for video processing and overnight jobs. this is what i got:

IBM Ultrastar IC35L018UWD210-0 18GB 10000RPM x 2 (P/N: 07N6350)
IBM DNES-309170 E182115 T 9GB x 6 (P/N: 25L1910)

ADAPTEC 2100S
ADAPTEC ARO-1130C
ADAPTEC AHA-2040UW

i have no idea about raid. i looked a few of these up but have no idea if they can go together or not, or if it's even worth the bother

little help? thanks.
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[unhappy_mage]

Junk, sorry. It's all so outdated that you'd be better sticking with modern 7200 rpm drives for scratch.

 

[Phoenix '97]

I can't really find a review for the smaller drives, but for the bigger ones you can look here:
http://www.storagereview.com/IC35L073UWD210.sr?page=0,1
It's more or less the same model with different capacities, and the performance should be about the same. Two of those in a RAID 0 wouldn't be all that bad. You could put those on the 2100S. The 1130C seems to be for motherboard with onboard SCSI controllers which this controller converts to a SCSI RAID configuration. I doubt you'll find a board nowadays with that feature.

That said, I'll buy/take the 2100S off your hands if you don't want it.