On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Harry G wrote: > I am about to build another PC to be used as a workstation. I picked up a > box of 5 new Seagate SCSI 3 50 gig drives for $250.00 total, so I am > thinking of using some them for this. > > Since SCSI controller boards are about $100.00 or so, I was thinking of > using a server mother biard with built in SCSI. A couple of questions: > > 1. Is the format usually the same (physicallly) so they will fit in a > standard case? (And what is the standard size?)
There are half & full height SCSI drives out there. But other than the height, the dimensions are the same as IDE. > 2. Any downfalls that you would know of going this route? Nope. SCSI is almost always preferable to IDE, once you get cost out of the picture. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
