I have a DC dev in, with no HDD. I need to get a scsi drive for it, anyone know offhand what size it is?
Mine came with a Seagate Medalist ST34520N, a 4.5GB 50pin Ultra SCSI-3. I've searched for a reasonably priced replacement for a few years and keep coming up empty. Apparently the same drive was used in a bunch of high end synths/sound production equipment so they seem to go for around 70-80$. Please let us (me) know if you find a place that has them cheaper.
Same here, the devkits I've seen all came with a ST34520N, but I guess any 50pin scsi drive would do...
Theoretically any 50-pin SCSI drive will work. And the reason behind the prices being high is that SCSI drives have always been ridiculously overpriced. SCSI Hardware is designed with business and industrial server use in mind and is therefore generally built to last longer than consumer grade products.
True and not true. Yes, SCSI has always been more expensive than IDE/SATA/... But you can find many cheap 50pin drives on ebay. If you look at the ST34520N however, prices generally start at >60$... As Quzar mentionned it, the same drive was used in sound equipment, so they are very sought after...
Any used scsi drives that aren't from the newest generation tend to be dirt cheap. Any business or industrial consumer that needs/wants scsi will not put a used drive in their system, and when old systems go they are basically thrown away or sold for maybe 5% of their original cost. 50-pin drives are only expensive at 4 or 9GB because those were the largest two sizes made, and the prime thing to upgrade an embedded end-user (not originally, but still) device with.
