FANTABULOU$ U160 Haul on eBay for $.99 . . .

#1 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 - 17:23

. . . with shipping additional . . . :-/

. . . bu it still factors out to about $.55/GB or $5.00/HDD . . .

ADAPTEC U160 SCSI CARD WITH 4 HARD DRIVE CAGE AND CABLES

. . . with a few nifty side orders thrown into the mix! [

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Just one single cable probably makes this conquest a steal.

#2 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 - 21:16

Did you snag it?

9GB SCA drives are not very expensive these days. The cage is worth more then the rest.

#3 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 - 23:34

Yep that was me, I was going to bid on it even before I noticed the three HDDs listed in the auction. The cables are something I need already the cage and drives are a big plus.

I haven't seen many 9GB drives for less than $6 shipped.

#4 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 - 00:39

I have a small stack of 18/36GB SCA drives from servers (mostly dells came with the mounting sled) for next to nothing last year. Havn't realy been looking much for SCSI drives lately , most have probably been retired and scrapped by now.

#5 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 - 13:26

Verrah naice

Going to use them as-is in a PCI Mac, or distribute the drives around a few different machines?

#6 Fri, 6 Jul 2012 - 15:22

THX, I like it! Dunno about where I'll wind up using the three 9GB Maxtors, but the pretty, terminated cable and RAID enclosure is headed into a Clear Plexi Display Cube (or near-cube) in a Drive assemblage resembling something like this . . .

. . . should the PEx MoBo find itself in operable condition, mounted with its cards pointing toward the left or right side of the "cube."

< . . . crosses fingers . . . >