Anyone had any experience with these?

Giz · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:01

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-011-FS

As the title says, wanna know if one of these are whorth getting.

Also, what leads do one of these babies take? Do OcUK sell these U320-SC2 80 Pin cables? :confused:

Cheers.

Nomisf · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:04

I think OcUk stock the cables but im not sure, do you already have a controller card for it ? and do you know if its the right type of SCSI ?

Rdgs,
Nomisf

rpstewart · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:10

Giz said:
Do OcUK sell these U320-SC2 80 Pin cables?

You can't buy 80pin SCSI cables. The 80 pin connector is a combined power and data connector designed for use in hot swap servers and disk enclosures. To use these disks in a normal PC you'll need a 68way U320 cable and a 68-80pin adapter for each drive (make sure it's U320 capable too).

As Nomisf says you'll need a controller card, either a U320 or U160 one ideally. You won't find a PCI U320 one although you will be able to use most PCI-X ones in a PCI slot at reduced bandwidth, this will be fine for a single drive. However if you're thinking about 2 disks or any form of RAID then it's a waste of time putting it in a PCI slot, you'll saturate the bus so you'd be better off with full PCI-X or PCIe.

Giz · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:14

Thanks for the quick reply guys

Nomisf · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:17

No worries mate. Always worth sharing knowledge in this day and age.

Rgds,
Nomisf

m3lv1n · 14 Jan 2007 at 00:45

Yeah they are very fast.

You will need PCI-X slot, PCI-X SCSI card 320MB/sec (£150 +) a SCA adapter 80pin/68pin £10 - £15 (ebay have them cheaper) and a 68Pin LVD cable with active term (£20 - £60 depending on number of heads). These will cost you a fair amount of cash.

Could be cheaper if you have onboard SCSI.

TBH you would be better off with a raptor though the firmware is better optimised for desktop usage. If its for a file server then SCSI is the way to go. SAS is better though.