Re: How do I find equipment (drives of various types) for my 6-year-old Linux system?

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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:14:35 -0400

Barry L. Bond wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> My question: what is the best way to find a vendor for devices that
> I need for my 6-year-old computer?
>
> Additional information: I have a 450 MHz Pentium II DFI computer on
> which I am running Red Hat Linux 7.1, although I have upgraded a number of
> pieces of this Linux myself, and separately. (One example, I'm running
> the 2.4.17 kernel. I couldn't compile the Red Hat kernel sources, but I
> was able to compile the www.kernel.org sources just fine. I've installed
> CUPS, etc.)
>
> I have 2 9-GB disks, and I want around 160-GB disks, so I'm looking
> for 2 (around) 160-GB disks. There are Ultra 2 Wide SCSI connectors on
> them.

If you're looking for Ultra2 Wide SCSI disks, you can safely use any
current U320 or U160 SCSI device and it will fall back to Ultra2 speeds.
  (Another poster has already mentioned the difference between 80-pin
and 68-pin drives. Like he said, unless you have hot swap drives, then
you just need any 68-pin SCSI drive.) However, be forewarned that they
will be *much* more expensive than IDE drives. Pricewatch currently
lists 146GB SCSI drives for around $226 (US Dollars; if you're outside
the U.S. prices will vary) vs. 160GB IDE disks for $59.

I don't know about you, but I'd think twice before spending that much
money upgrading to large SCSI drives on a 450 MHz P-II. There's
probably an IDE controller on-board (possibly unused) that you could use
to attach new IDE drives. If not, a dual-port IDE card won't cost much.
   You could get two drives and an IDE card for well under the price of
a single 146GB SCSI disk.

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