[KLUG Members] The Hunt for Hardware....

[Bruce Smith]

As of late, I like the Adaptec 2490UW card as good if not better than 
the Buslogics.  I've seen them in the sub $100 range.  (somewhere ...)

> Recently, I was looking for a decent SCSI card at a good price. I recall
> seeing BT-930's or BT-950's and similar such cards around the net for
> fairly paltry sums, such as 60-90 dollars, and if I saw them for less, it
> didn't surprise me. This week I go out there and start looking, and
> there's nothing around for less than about $130! Wha' happened?!? I don't
> have huge ambitions, I simply want to drive a CD-R and a scanner, maybe
> buy a real hard drive someday... and perhaps explore the wonders of RAID
> (if I got a 950, that is).
> 
> Perhaps I'm a cheapskate, but ponying up the extra $30 all of the sudden
> is something of a nuisance. Oh, I'll do it if I have to, but before I
> actually go for that, I'd like to know what drove all of "those" card into
> the shadows, or can anyone reccomend an equivalent "decent" SCSI card??



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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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