Internal SCSI hard drive?

Question

I have a 15000 RPM Fujitsu SCSI hard drive that I want to use in my build. the problem is, Im new to the world of SCSI, all I know of it is that it is an older interface, and that I need PCI card with internal ports as most motherboards do not come compatible with SCSI. These vary in price from $20 to $200. What is the difference? also, I am having a hard time finding a card with an 80-pin port (that of my new drive)? Any possible bottlenecks in speed I need to look for in this setup? somone please tell me all, I hunger for knowledge, lol.

Answer 1

The hard drive you have is "hot swappable" & designed for redundancy in a server environment.

For non hot swap functionality it does not use all 80 pins. An adapter like this one will allow you to connect it to a standard 68 pin SCSI card :

Adapter for the connectors:
http://www.bixnet.com/sca80pinscsi.html

Suggested SCSI card :
http://www.nextag.com/Adaptec-SCSI-ADAPTERS-AHA-2710857/prices-html

There will be no speed bottleneck. SCSI is very fast because it uses the processor on the adapter rather the the PC's CPU.
Perfect for multitasking.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 2

Speed will be relative to your environment.. If you are currently running SATA 300.. it might as well be a storage dump in comparison to your SATA drives. If you have ATA 66.. well use this thing as your system drive, its pretty fast.

Now, SCSI is basically dead. I mean yeah there is U 320, which is faster than SATA 300.. and then you get into tasty fiber channel... but this drive you have (I think) Is goign to run at a max of U2W SCSI.. I may be wrong.. if so.. thats nothing to write home about.