[SunRescue] Any experience with IDE to SCSI adapters???

[Ken Hansen]

SCSI/IDE adapters are rare birds, and priced accordingly - you are being
optomisitc (IMHO) to consider the cost at $100. There is a company that
sells a SCSI/IDE adapter board for ntebook drives (for SPARCBook and
older Apple power mac applications) that sells for about $200 or more,
*if* you can find someone willing to sell them individually...

Try hitechcafe.com for low-cost drives that are SCSI,

HTH,

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <a222 at redrose.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Any experience with IDE to SCSI adapters???


> > True, but
> > 1. How much do you trust that 27gig drive?
>
> Do you think that SCSI drives are inherently more reliable?  It was my
> understanding that the platters are the same, but the drive electronics
are
> different.  I have never seen any drive fail due to the chips.
>
> > 2. How fast is it?
>
> For $139, it's fast enough :-)
>
> They are either UDMA/33 or 66 drives, 5400RPM, 2MB buffer cache
>
> For $199, I can get the 45GB DiamondMax 5400RPM.
>
> Even if the adapter costs $99 it still might be worth it.
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> a222 at redrose.net
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