I have just been given 2 x 74Gb 10k 80Pin scsi hard drives after replacing them with a few 146Gb's. Now i have just bought a new PC, Abit 680i board, Intel E6600, 8800gtx Graphics Card and 3 x 320Gb SATA2 drives.

First things first, obviously these drives are hot swap (80pin). Can i buy a scsi card that has 80pin on it or do i need an external hot swap bay (i assume they dont make them for a mid-tower case)??

Speed wise, will it really make that much of a difference.

Thanks

The s***ty slowness of the PCI interface would negate the speed of those drives AFAIK. Do they make PCI express scsi cards?

silly me, i'll just use a 80-68 pin converter. scsi card wise, would Link be suffice?

Do they make PCI express scsi cards?

Yeah, had to buy one today from IBM for a tapedrive.

Just sell them and get some Raptor's.

I have 2 old scsi drives I got from a file server, they came in hot-swap caddy enclosures. From what I can figure of the way my adaptec card detects s*** it does it on boot, if I hot swapped them out while it was on I don't know if it would even see it. I could be wrong though, there could also be some command to make the card re-init the drives but neither of my asus motherboards would let me into the scsi cards' setup menu. My abit board was the only one it worked on and that died years ago :(

hot-plug gear should have an online configuration method, you shouldn't need to get into the actual controller boot-up util

speed of scsi hard drives vs the raptors? I would have thought the scsi drives still faster, can get the SCSI card for $200 or so.

Reliability would be another thing in favor of SCSI