In a IIfx, I'd definitely go for 3.5" SCA/Ultra160 and spend the extra money on a Fast/Narrow SCSI II (much more common)or FAST/Wide NuBus Card before THAT supply runs out or reaches stratospheric, SE/30 Card pricing.
Gotta prioritize and get while the gettin's good, IMO.
My projections for the situation:
I don't see server drives dying in droves under retro-use or the supply ever really running out. Prices will trend upward while the solid state converters will be trending down with each new iteration. It's the classic X graph for supply/demand pricing. Now is the sweet spot for the drives and we're far, not long past the sweet spot for NuBus Cards that obviate the bottleneck of Apple's sub-standard implementation of the SCSI Spec.
Can any currently available Solid State Converter match SCSI II data transfer rates anyway?
Gotta prioritize and get while the gettin's good, IMO.
My projections for the situation:
I don't see server drives dying in droves under retro-use or the supply ever really running out. Prices will trend upward while the solid state converters will be trending down with each new iteration. It's the classic X graph for supply/demand pricing. Now is the sweet spot for the drives and we're far, not long past the sweet spot for NuBus Cards that obviate the bottleneck of Apple's sub-standard implementation of the SCSI Spec.
Can any currently available Solid State Converter match SCSI II data transfer rates anyway?