[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Fri Nov 20 16:09:11 UTC 2009


On 20 Nov 2009, at 00:50, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
[...]
> Actually, one other recycling trick I probably should have mentioned  
> is
> to get hold of some small, ex server, 10,000 rpm fast SCSI drives and
> cheapo SCSI cards off ebay and use those for the system disk.

Don't buy second-hand or refurbished disks, as you don't know how hard  
they've been hammered or if they've already failed once. Here are some  
dirt cheap new SCSI disks:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/73-Gb-Fujitsu-MAW3073NP-Enterprise-68pin-Ultra320-SCSI-10000-rpm-8MB-Cache-4-ms


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