[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Oct 17 21:15:56 CDT 2006


>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/10/17 Tue PM 04:54:08 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 @ 12:27 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
>
>> Just a datapoint: 74 GB Maxtor (I know, I know) 10,000 RPM U320 SCSI
>> drive, $59.97
>
>It's probably like Maxtor's SATA drives: an IDE drive with a cheap
>converter board glommed onto it.
>
>Maxtor only fairly recently started making real SATA drives.
>
>I'd imagine their "SCSI" is a conversion too.
>
>Anyone have one who could check?


How would you check? (I don't have one, but I am curious)

Lionel



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