SCSI disks in this day and age?

[danbeaver]

With the low cost of U320 SCSI drives (I picked up four 146GB 10K Maxtor's for twenty-five bucks), I don't see a need to go the SCSI<->SATA Route.  While Acard and others make an interface for standard Amiga SCSI-to-SATA devices, they are in the $$$ range. Cheaper is an IDE to SATA adapter, but rather slow and with the Amiga+IDE's issues with secondary drive/ ATAPI support

[danbeaver]

Yes, it will cost five dollars on *bay to convert from a 50-pin SCSI cable to an 80-pin SCA. And you end up plugging power into the five buck interface and setting the device number. I had to save up for months to afford it

[danbeaver]

Well the SCA drive will be so much faster than any Amiga SCSI interface that it will be waiting for the interface to catch up. To the best of my knowledge, the Phase 5 SCSI interface (NEC 53C770) on a 68-pin bus is about the fastest Amiga interface there is, and now the HDD's are as inexpensive or less than their CF counter-parts. I have backups on both, but now the HDDs coming out of service with their servers are as cheap to buy as potato chips.

[danbeaver]

Everybody likes potato chips!

Yeah, but in a few years they will be looking in garbage cans to find them

[danbeaver]

Actually, he is right. The servers being taken out of service are being checked and sold , with many in the sub 100 buck range; they would make great home servers. Once I get a better understanding of Linux Server Edition or FreeNAS, I'll put some of those "Vintage" SCA SCSI disks into use.