SCSI Disk Arrays??

[franksoprano]

Can someone point me in the direction to finding some SCSI Disk Arrays that will hold IDE drives??


Thanks!

 

[rclarke250]

You can not connect IDE drives to a scsi controller. IDE drives to IDE controllers, and scsi drives to a scsi controller,you can not mix them. If you are asking if there is a scsi enclosure for scsi drives with say an ide bay for a cdrom drive or something like that...I have never seen anything like that as that would have 2 cables on the case to the pc. And since I have never seen a server or a pc with an external ide header there would be no point.

What are you looking to do?
Rich

 

[franksoprano]

rclarke250,

"You can not connect IDE drives to a scsi controller. IDE drives to IDE controllers, and scsi drives to a scsi controller,you can not mix them"

Im well aware of that, but thats not what im looking to do.. Im looking for a scsi enclosure that will support EIDE drives and connect to the host system via SCSI..

Something similar to this:

http://www.mikerohard.de/ift-6200.html

 

[rclarke250]

Wow, I wasn't aware they were doing that...I noticed in the specs that it is about 5 times slower than native scsi throughput. But I guess if you were using it for personel storage it would work great and be far cheaper then going with scsi. But if it is for an office with a database that has a lot of activity I would go with scsi. depends on price performance ratio between the 2 options.

Rich

 

[franksoprano]

Learn something new everyday Yea it would be for personal use only, and will not be under intensive read/writes at any given time.. Just need to have a large amount of disk space available to store all my files...

Brand new those units cost a arm and a leg, been trying to find a used one or two...