Ultra160 SCSI - 80 pin hard drives

[Kenazo]

First of all, I have no clue about SCSI

Anyway, I inherited 2 36.4GB 80 pin Ultra 160 drives from work when they changed a bunch of stuff. I'd like to use these drives in two of my desktops at home, but am having some trouble finding an applicable controller card. I obviously don't have any need for redundancy, I'm just looking at putting single drives in each computer.

Any suggestions on a good controller card for this? I find lots of Ultra 160 cards that are 68pin when I do some googling, but can't find any 80 pin ones. Am I not looking for the right thing?

Thanks!

 

[sparks]

Its not worth it, depending on how old the drives are, todays high performance SATA drives are faster than SCSI drives, especially in desktop applications. You would need to get 2 U160 controllers and then get 2 adapters for the drives as they are 80 pins. Most desktop SCSI controllers have 68 pins, the 80 pins are for servers and also supply power to the drive, so the adapter is a 68 pin and power to 80 pin converter.

 

[Kenazo]

2nd question then:

We have a computer at work that has an Adaptec 2120s controller that's currently running a RAID 5 array. Is it possible (and would there be any benefit) to sticking one of these 36.4 gig's onto that controller and run it as a stand alone drive to use for the page file?

(again, I don't know anything about SCSI, just trying to feel out what all works with this stuff!)