HP 36.4Gb 15000RPM 320 SCSI drives help

rizla1 · Oct 5, 2010

i just bought 5 of these now can someone help with what else i will need ? will a pci scsi card be ok in win 7 ? do i need ultra wide cables for them?

dr emulator (madmax) · Oct 5, 2010

i remember being given a expensive tape drive that needed the pinch wheel repairing ,
only problem was getting hold of a scsi card to plug it into, which i was told would be very hard to get drivers for, so i scrapped the whole thing (estimated value of drive £1100 )
but that was before i got the net, so i might have had some better luck :eek:

all i can say is good luck you might find one on fleabay that's win 7 compatible

Kreij · Oct 5, 2010

One of these will do fine

Where to get one in Ireland is your burden.

MoonPig · Oct 5, 2010

5x 15k? When you get all setup, can you send me some HDTune (or similar) results?

You planning on Raid0?

And how much did they all cost you?

rizla1 · Oct 6, 2010

thanks all
dr.em - those are pretty much what ive been looking at on ebay. its the 5way cable that im nervous about .. when you get up to the faster ones its waaaaay in the thousands. but so much power.
Kreij - ebay is probably the best place .£25-40 for the card i think.

MoonPig - if i can afford to get it up and running sure. raid0 was the first thing that crossed my mind. sure il post hdtune result aswell .
these exact drives are £70-90 new £20 used i think !http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=HP%2036.4Gb%2015000RPM%20320%20SCSI&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US :eek:

fficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf crazy money
mine came cheap at an auction.

also are these 5 way scsi cables what i need for 5 drives + terminator = pci raid scsi card?
should be fun as they look quite fast
also the seek times 2-4ms and latency 2-4ms what is an average sata seek time/latency?

timta2 · Oct 6, 2010

Since it clearly has "320" in the name of the drive wouldn't you want an Ultra-320 SCSI card? Being limited to 40MB/s seems sucky with 5 drives.

rizla1 · Oct 6, 2010

lol fucker didnt mention that in ad . but they will do for something 320mbs seems faster . 320mbs are new 1's £200 for 36gb . even at them speeds 5x40mBs is gona be 4 times faster than my current hard drives . just checked up and these drives are limiting there power in the scsi interface troughput internal is 860mbs . will see what i get anyway the will be useful to someone.

hat · Oct 6, 2010

860MB/s? Dude... that's faster then the fastest SSD.

Disparia · Oct 6, 2010

You're somewhat limited given the options on your board - PCI or PCIe x1.

Adaptec makes a single channel U320 x1 card, the 29320LPE.

ATTO makes a dual channel U320 x4 card, the UL5D. Would have to cut your x1 slot and run at x1 speeds until a board upgrade.

Having said that, even if you end up with a PCI/PCI64/PCI-X controller running in your PCI slot, it'll still 'feel' great, you just won't have good looking benchies. I believe I have an Adaptec 29160 (single channel U160) around here somewhere. I'll see if it works, if you're interested. Wouldn't charge you more than shipping + a little handling.

rizla1 · Oct 6, 2010

hat said:
860MB/s? Dude... that's faster then the fastest SSD.

sorry 860 mbs still quite a bit more than 320mbs

@jizzler i may pm u , first i wana see what all i need

timta2 · Oct 6, 2010

even at them speeds 5x40mBs is gona be 4 times faster than my current hard drives

I'm pretty sure that if you went with just a Wide SCSI card that has a max 40MB/s, that is the total bandwidth that the card can handle. It's not 5x40 MB/s but 1x40 MB/s. It's been years since I've used SCSI devices though, so I'm not certain.

860MB/s? Dude... that's faster then the fastest SSD.

Big B is Bytes and little B is Bits by the way. So Mb/s and MB/s are not the same thing. You have to multiply (or divide) by 8 since there are 8 bits to a byte.

xrealm20 · Oct 6, 2010

timta2 said:
I'm pretty sure that if you went with just a Wide SCSI card that has a max 40MB/s, that is the total bandwidth that the card can handle. It's not 5x40 MB/s but 1x40 MB/s. It's been years since I've used SCSI devices though, so I'm not certain.

Correct - Ultra Wide Scsi had a maximum of 40 Megabytes per second across the interface, which is shared between all drives on the controller.

U320 Scsi was able to move 320 Megabytes per second of data across the interface. So when you'd have 7 drives in a array, the maximum throughput of all 7 drives combined would be 320 megabytes per second.

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