4 New 47 gig Seagate Elite UWSCSI Hard Drives $119

[MyBuds]

This site has four new 47gig(formated) ultrawide scsi hardrives for $119. Seek times seem high, not sure what RPM these drives are, they are much larger physically than normal harddrives, and havent figured out shipping from this site, but cost per gig is low, and these are scsi.

From Site

47GB MONSTER DRIVES!
ADVANCED FEATURES
? CAPACITY: 62GB UNFORMATTED, 47GB FORMATTED AT 512 BYTES/SEC
? UNBELIEVABLE CLOSEOUT PRICING! UNDER $30 A DRIVE IN 4 PACKS!!!
? 28 HEAD DESIGN REDUCES TIME SPENT SEEKING FOR DATA
? UNIVERSAL FIRMWARE IS PC, NT, MAC, SGI, AND SUN COMPATIBLE
? ULTRA WIDE MULTI-TASKING SCSI INTERFACE IS PERFECT FOR RAID
SYSTEMS
? ULTRA-WIDE 40MB/SEC DATA TRANSFER RATE
? PCI CONTROLLERS AND SCSI ACCESSORIES AVAILABLE
? NO RISK 15 DAY TRIAL PERIOD

SEAGATE RELIABILITY
Open Windows instantly. Process huge graphic and database files with ease. make your file server scream with speed. End disk space problems forever. The 47GB Seagate Elite is the drive you need for serious performance. It features 14 disks and 28 heads for blazing performance 3.5" drives can't touch. The Ultra Wide interface makes installation a snap. A 4 MB cache buffer accelerates data transfers.

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http://www.corpsys.com/store/prodinfo.asp?number=ST446452W4PK&variation=&aitem=7&mitem=40

 

[mra]

If I could buy one for $30 I'd be all over it ... but those drives are just too big plus I don't have an Ultra-Wide SCSI card

 

[maverick24]

ok - called and checked. couldnt resist!

these are older drives they're trying to get rid of. and yes the deal is for 4 drive pack.

you get 4 monster drives for that price. but u will also need a scsi card to go with it..

right now there's no space in my computer for these...but with external hookups ???
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

 

[ai42]

are these double height or triple? looks like triple due to the pic but I can't tell.

 

[zimtekDeals]

Drive Info

 

[RichardK]

Full specs on these drives can be founc here.

 

[msn]

Looks like QUAD to me - as in the old 5¼" height full size drives - these ARE 3½" drives, aren't they?

 

[sleefer]

These are full height drives. They will take up two 5 1/4 " drives bays. That should give you an indication of how big they are. The are big and slow by todays standards. Check your cases if you are interested in one of these you may have to do a bit of modding to the the guide tabs for your bays in order to fit one in.

 

[msn]

Hoohah!

POWER REQUIREMENTS: Single-ended
+12V START-UP (amps) _4.8
+12V TYPICAL (amps) __1.6
+5V START-UP (amps) __1.0
+5V TYPICAL (amps) ___.98
TYPICAL ( watts seek/read)_24.1
IDLE (watts) ______________22.8
USER MANUAL PART NUMBER __________________

** Already low-level formatted at the factory with 6 cylinders per
region and 82 spares per region.

Physical:
Height (inches/mm): 3.25/82.6
Width (inches/mm): 5.75/146.1
Depth (inches/mm): 8.0/203
Weight (lbs/kg): 7.0/3.17

 

[cliftonite]

Can we create an external RAID for these?

 

[bargainshopper]

According to the link above, the drive is about least 4-year old...

 

[clarkmo]

How 'bout a 9 gigger for... $8.95!

 

[clarkmo]

Am I misreading something? 10 pack 18gb fibre channel 10,000 rpm for $119.00??!!

 

[msn]

Just think of the power supplies you would need to run a couple!

 

[Tanner]

there are a ton of these for sale on ebay... do a search for "fibre channel"

 

[Kwad Guy]

Anything but recent fibre channel drives are worthless. Why? Because the hardware
you need to setup and run fibre channel is very expensive. As a result, anyone setting
up a fibre channel system will not flinch at the prices of the more recent, better performance
drives.

You can't give away the slower, smaller, older fibre channel drives. As the price you mention
attests to.

Kwad

 

[tphong]

Originally posted by: msn
Looks like QUAD to me - as in the old 5¼" height full size drives - these ARE 3½" drives, aren't they?

These are super high and super wide drives! Get them and you might not be able to install them in your cases! The regular 3 1/2" drive today is 1", full height is right around 1.6".... but these Elite drive, they're 3.2"!!! Install one of these babies and you lose two of your bays! To make it worse, these drive were manufactured a very, very long time ago (7 years??) and so warranty probably expired.

Purchase one already? Good luck to ya!

 

[Peetoeng]

Noise from these drives would compete with that from your window air conditioner unit.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Yeah, put four of those 47gb hard drives in your case and you can be sure:

1) Your case is as big as a large air conditioner
2) Your computer will make as much noise as a large air conditioner
3) Your computer will need an accompanying large air conditioner to keep things
in the room acceptably cool.

Also note that these drives use 14 (!!!) platters to bring you that "whopping" 47gb.
That's a big reason these drives feature piss-poor specs by today's standards. These
aren't just lousy by SCSI standards, they are lousy by current IDE standards.

I can't think of anyone for whom this would be a hot deal...

Kwad

 

[worms]

All this talk about the drive height cracks me up. Just so that you guys know, back before you were born, your grandparents used computers with 5.25"x3.25" drives. They are known as plain old regular height. The 1.6" format used for cdrom drives and very old hard drives is called "half-height" (do the math). The modern format is aptly named inch-high.

Anyway, they will fit in almost any computer ever made without modification (sure, you might have to remove your cdrom) but the real disincentive is surely the noise produced by 14 lbs of platters spinning at 5400RPM! It's probably so loud that you can't even hear the array of 28 heads swinging a full 5 inches back and forth across the giant platters.

 

[MyBuds]

True, drives of this size and speed arent great for normal uses. But they still serve for cheap data storage in a file server if $/gig is a top priority. If you are using these on a network storing data, you can put them in a full size case in a place where the noise will not bother anyone.

 

[SKORPI0]

LOL. Weight - 7 lbs. each. 28 lbs. for the drives plus you external case. :Q

I already have an external 9.1GB SCSI-2 drive with the same size & weight, these are heavy drives/GB. I still remember the time when I was using 12" floppy disc (720Kb??) at work. Just imagine, one of these drives are have the same capacity as 10 4.7 GB DVD-RW.

 

[EDiT]

I still have an old SCSI array controller, so $200 for 280GB of RAID 5 is tempting.

For the noise, I wish my house were layed out a little differently, and I would cut a hole in the wall for the SCSI cable and shove the array in another room. However, next to my server room is a hall, and I don't think I'd get away with putting it there. Also, a case that could hold 7 of these would be huge.

Oh well, maybe next time.

 

[Barrak]

I managed to get in on the Gateway Server deal a year or so ago. These drives should work perfectly with that, although I will have to rig up some sort of external enclosure for them. Looks like my home server farm is going to get another upgrade

 

[Dran]

Think anyone should tell CompGeeks that the same drive they're selling here for $250 is a tad overpriced?