SCSI people, look here

[4od]

We all know that only sissies use S-ATA or god forbid, IDE. Let's get a round of applause for all the real men out there that use SCSI. Please post you controller and your hardrives themselves.

LSI 20320-R (Ultra-320)

Hitachi Ultrastar 15k RPM (ultra-320)

Huzzah!

 

[emboss]

Currently active:
() Compaq SmartArray 5302 (64 MB) with five Seagate X15's (18 GB first-gen 15K) in RAID5, two 72GB Atlas 10K3's in RAID0, and some 2.1 GB drive (7.2K RPM, going to end up a a shelf ornament Real Soon Now) all in a nice 3U NEC rackmount unit. Looking for a way to fill the remaining 6 spaces without breaking the bank.
() Two 72GB Fujitsu MAT (I think, damn Fujitsu and their naming scheme) 10K drives in a Sun Ultra 2, using the onboard controller whatever that is. Seperate volumes.
() 73GB Seagate 10K.7 on some form of an LSI 1600 (Elite 1600 IIRC).

Inactive:
() IBM ServeRAID 4Lx (have yet to find a motherboard that likes this card, they either seem to freeze during POST or run slower than a floppy drive).
() 4x9.1 GB full-height 7.2K drives. Can't recall who made 'em. Too loud, too hot, too slow, not worth the shipping cost to send them anywhere, probably going to end up as doorstops or something.
() Adaptec 20 MB/sec PCI card, forgotten the name. Same as the 9.1 GB drives, just sitting in a box somewhere and not worth the effort.

Long-term plan:
Eventually, I'm going to consolodate everything into the NEC unit and run everything over iSCSI and NFSv4 backed by raid-z. Additionally, I'll be adding four 320GB 7200.10's (with another 4 drives later once I start running out of space again) as bulk data storage. I've got most of the parts together for the iSCSI stuff (nice Intel gigabit NICs, jumbo-frame supporting gigabit switch) and just need to find a weekend or two where I can buy the drives, back up everything, reformat, and get everything set back up again. This should give me 72 GB of Really Fast space (15K drives, using one as parity), 288 GB of Quite Fast space (10K drives, using one as parity), and 960 GB of Average Speed space (7.2K SATA drives, using one as parity) growing to 1920+ GB when I add the other four drives. All nicely bundled up into 6RU of space and with 4 SCSI and 2 SATA spaces to spare

 

[Murdochs_mad]

Bought a SUN Ultra 60 that came with an extra SCSI card in it (that want supposed to be there) Symbios, has 2 channels and I'm pretty sure its U2W (hope I got that right, don't want to look silly )
also have:

2 x IBM DDRS-34560 Ultrastar 9ES 4.5gb 7200rpm
1 x Fujitsu MAB3045SC 4.5gb 7200rpm
1 x Seagate Baracuda 2.1gb (i think is dead)

All SCA for SUN​

1 x Conner 540mb Fast-2 (I think)

Came in my first PC, 486 DX/2 80 with a future domain SCSI card​

Been wanting to put a decent SCSI system in my current rig, (not allowed at the moment chrimbo is sucking up all the spare cash) I seem to have a habit of killing PATA/SATA drives, SCSI drives seem more resiliant

 

[Phoenix '971]

Adaptec 29160

36GB, 15K
2x MAM3367NC, 1x MAS3367NC

18GB, 15K
1x BF01863644

18GB, 10K
1x Seagate something or other.

I have another 36GB MAS in the mail, expecting a 73GB MAT or two for Christmas.

Ideally, I'll have:
OS: 36GB MAS
Temporary Internet Files, MATLAB, other Temp directories: 36GB MAS
Games: 73GB MAT

 

[PLOBBY]

adaptec something.. 64mb of ram

raid 1

4 x 18.2gb 10k hot-swap scsi drives

 

[aftermath]

well I got me some SCSI and the power bill to go with it.

decided I wanted to learn with some hands on use

Good. the drives are quieter than my old WD IDE drives in my server
Bad power + heat

HP NetRAID-4M 128mb
4 channels Its made by Adaptec and has a 266mhz/64bit risc co-proccesor

had a laugh putting it in because the BIOS on the card and the board its in did not get along. Had to flash multiple combinations to find a combination that works!

I still cant use the BIOS config util because of a conflict. To configure the array I have to install it in an old asus P2b-D that had a Fast card in it once.

there are 5+(1 spare) 9.1 IBM drives in RAID five and 6 36.4GB assorted drives in raid 50 connected to the card writes are ~90mbs-1

annoyingly the raid 5 set is faster than the raid 50 set. I might get four more 36GB drives and expand the sets to 5 each (10 drives) to see if the raid 50 set end up faster than the 5 but i would need to put them in another case i think as im pulling quite a bit of juice with what I've got.

 

[Xaotic]

Too much stuff to list properly: Adaptec 29160Ns, LSI U160s, ServeRAID 4H, 4M, 2x 6I ZCR on LSI U320 onboard, 2x 7M, numerous backplanes and configurations including expansions up to EXP400. 10K and 15K drives ranging from 36GB to 146GB, haven't found a need for the cash expenditure on the 300s yet. I seem to be picking up more and more SATA lately as bit buckets, but most systems will still be SCSI boot.