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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>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 ...)

Yes, Best Buy sells them for quite a bit less than that.  I have started using
the Adaptec 24?? series for lower end SCSI.  They consume fewer CPU cycles than
the BusLogic Flashpoint series (BT-9??) and the drivers are under more active
development.  Amazing that Best Buy sells a good product and at a reasonable
price.  I also somehow ended up with a Tekram card that I am quite happy with, 
I've seen those about for sub-$100 at places like Onsale and CDW.
 
>>>ecently, 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

The BT-930s and BT-950s seem to be fading away.  I find them in less places for
more money.

>>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).

If you only want to control hard drives snatch an IBM ServerRAID III of E-bay. 
But they don't work with CD-ROM drives, etc....

>>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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