[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

J. Alexander Jacocks jjacocks at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 23:42:41 CDT 2006


Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> said:
> 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?
<snip>

Notice the name?  This is actually a Quantum disk, designed before
they were absorbed into Maxtor.

This should be quality stuff.

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