[rescue] need a high cap 50 pin Cheetah

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

>From prices I usually see on ebay, if you can use an SCA connector drive
and an adapter, it will cost you far far far less than getting a high
capacity drive (> 9 gig) with a genuine 50 pin interface.

If I had a few hundred 18 gig or greater 50 pin drives I was sitting on,
I could live well for while w/o a job with the price they fetch on ebay.

-- Curt

>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:13:38 -0500
>From: Kevin <kevin at mpcf.com>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] need a high cap 50 pin Cheetah
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>I've got a couple of the adapters but haven't tried them on
>the PVR yet.  I see no reason why it would not work, but i'd
>rather just get a few 18 gig narrow Cheetahs.  One less
>potential point of failure.  Of course an older drive might be
>more prone to fail then a newer one..... who knows.
>
>/KRM
>
>On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:59:14 +0000 (UTC)
>abuse at cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett) wrote:
>
>> Get a 50-to-SCA adaptor and use a modern drive. I got one
>> from eBay for about a tenner, and it worked fine. As for
>> performance, the limiting factor was the 10MB/s SCSI bus,
>> not the adaptor or drive when I used a 9GB 7200RPM Seagate.
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