Smokin' Deal - 9GB SCSI Hard Drive and Controller Card $26

[dsscube]

Only thing is that the drive is HUGE! The controller card is ISA. Here's the link (http://www.softwareandstuff.com/h_hd_SEAGATEST410800scsi.html)

$26 Bucks and Shipping looks to be pretty reasonable as well.

Product Specification:
SEAGATE MODEL#: ST-410800N
Unformatted Capacity: 10,800
Formatted Capacity (512 byte blk): 9,090
Average Sectors Per Track: 133 (rounded down)
Actuator Type: Rotary Voice Coil
Tracks: 132,975
Cylinders: 4925
Heads: 27
DISCS (5.25 in): 14
Internal Transfer Rate (mbits/sec): 44-65
Internal Transfer Rate Avg (mbyte/sec): 7.2
External Transfer Rate (mbyte/sec): 10 (burst)
Spindle Speed (RPM): 5,400
Buffer: 1024 Kbyte
Read Look-Ahead, Adaptive, Multi-Segmented Cache
Interface: SCSI-2 FAST ASA
Average Access (ms) read/write: 11/12
Single Track Seek (ms) read/write: 0.9/1.7
Max Full Seek (ms) read/write: 23/24
MTBF (power-on hours) Class A Room: NA
MTBF (power-on hours) Office: 500,000
Physical Dimension: Height (inches/mm): 3.25/82.6 x Width (inches/mm): 5.75/146.1 x Depth (inches/mm): 8.0/203
Weight (lbs/kg): 7.8/3.6

SCSI Card included with this bundle is a ISA SCSI Host Adapter manufactured by Data Technology or Advansys.

Package Content: Seagate ST410800N 9GB SCSI-II 50-pin Hard Driv, ISA SCSI Card, and SCSI ribbon cable.

[Ladogaboy]

Haha, that drive is HUGE!!!! Does anyone know if it is refurbished? It kind of seems that way to me... Anyway, if you go to their main page, they have some pretty decent deals on refurbished Trinitron monitors $80-$90.

[attgig]

looks like a refurb...(Condition:Factory Recertified )
not worth it..
takes up 2 drive bays...
9 gigs is nuttin
and scsi of old - Spindle Speed (RPM): 5,400 - is slower than ata-66 hd's

[Mablung]

I've always wanted to get a SCSI HDD, and this one seems like a steal, even for a refurb. Are you sure an ATA-66 drive is faster? This one has a stated burst speed of 10 mbytes(!) /sec....isn't that faster than ATA-66's burst capabilities? The drive is really tempting because 9 gigs would be all I need to run Windows and my applications from, and I could use my larger ATA-66 drives for mp3 and movie file storage :)

My only problem would be learning to configure a SCSI device...i've never done it before, and from what I've read on the Seagate webpage so far, it ain't nearly as dummy proof as hooking up an EIDE HDD.

[Ladogaboy]

Where SCSI beats out IDE and any ATA (including the new ATA 133) is the amount of bandwidth it can handle. The amount of data that a hard drive can send is something completely different. What attgig is trying to say is that an ATA 66 hard drive would be faster than this drive.

Anyway, it really isn't worth it, just because of the space it takes up and the fact that it is used. Granted, it is probably the most HD space you could get for the money, but that still doesn't make it worth it. Save yourself some trouble, and stick with IDE.

[Auspexian]

Do stay away from these drives. I work for many years with a large disk array manufacturer. 9G drives full height from Seagate are BAD.We had to scrap thousands of these drives because of contamination because of manufacture defects. 9G full height from other companies, no problem. 9G and 4G 3.5" from Seagate are the best drives in the industrỵ

I am a scsi fan, but 8Bit scsi card can only support 5Mbytes transfer
rate or lower. A 16bit is much better, and they are cheap now a day,
since you can do all sort of RAID with IDE/ATA :-)

John

[Littlejason99]

I used to have that same model drive like 5 or 10 years ago! It was as slow as a DOG!!! Don't bother you are only throwing your money away... unless you want a $26 paperweight...

[resented]

This is all too funny. Is it 4 or 5 inches tall? Rofl!

[BrewMaster]

and the controller card is ISA. ummm, thanks, but no thanks...

[JJtheJetPlane]

Is this (http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-4108) the same product? Doesn't come with the SCSI adapter card, but it's only $14.95 through .compgeeks (http://www.compgeeks.com).

[sbp]

Yeah its the same drive.

[Jihforce]

Damn, that's huge.
:heh:

[qeg84doa]

:bandit: I snagged four of them. One of the best deals yet in this forum. I'm gonna hook them up in a raid 0 configuration. Anyone know how?

[BrewMaster]

Originally posted by qeg84doa
:bandit: I snagged four of them. One of the best deals yet in this forum. I'm gonna hook them up in a raid 0 configuration. Anyone know how?

you're kidding, right?

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by qeg84doa
:bandit: I snagged four of them. One of the best deals yet in this forum. I'm gonna hook them up in a raid 0 configuration. Anyone know how? :eek:

Well, IF you are serious... uhh.. There are SCSI cards that support the RAID0, but they are very expensive...

[nomoney]

4 drives! HAHAHAHA! hope you got another tower just for the drives. Thats like over a foot of hard drives!