SCSI in home PC?

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Picked up a Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 146GB HDD for cheap, either to use in my desktop or sell on. Can I get a PCI SCSI card or similar and what are the costs? Or is it not that easy? PC is currently an ASUS A8N-deluxe, X2 [email protected]

May not be worth it but would give me a nice performance boost if it's possible.

Thanks.
 
I have eight 73GB Cheetas in two RAID arrays in external cases made by Transtec and they're fine, if a little noisy, so I only use them for backups. Back in the day before SATA was king of the hill, I used them internally. In both cases, I use an Adaptec 39160 I picked up off ebay for about £70, but no doubt you'd find it or a similar card cheaper now. Have a look at Adaptec (US) site for a guide as to what cable you need to fit what connectors on cards and drives. SCSI is quite backwards compatible but will run at the speed of the slower component e.g. Before the 39160, I used a 2940AU, so the SCSI160 speed drives ran at only 40mb/sec. You might want to have a look at the short guide here:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/cables/_education/connect_int_ultra160_devices.htm
 
i bought an adpadtec 39320 for £23 delivered a month or so ago off the bay. Suprising with cheap scsi cars look for "host" scsi adapters as most "full" hardware adpters show there age and become a bottleneck (33mhz RISC Processors,etc)

genrally LSI adapters are quicker than adaptec
 
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