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Old SCSI drives...any good?

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I recently got my hands on a ton of older computer guts...some of it was pretty darn good, but most will probally eventually find its way to the land fill.

Any way, I am now the (proud?) owner of 16 of these old SCSI drives. They are only 7200RPM and 9.1 gigs in size. I looked them up and found some info out http://sillworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=1184 and it says they are only 40MB/s. I don't think they are that old that they would be worse then 66ultra IDE drives. Or are they?

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They can come out of the hot swap cases and then they look like a normal SCSI drive, but I haven't had enough experience with SCSI to be able to tell if its 68 pin or 80 pin...or if these hard drives will even work with out the hot plug cases. I am fairly certain that they are 68 pin drives. Can I just get a controler card and run these?
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Ty Auchter
You can get SCSI controllers pretty cheap so give it a go... If they're dead then toss them or make some modern art with them and return the controller. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by Ty Auchter

You can get SCSI controllers pretty cheap so give it a go... If they're dead then toss them or make some modern art with them and return the controller. Good luck!

modern art lol.
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