04-10-2007, 02:03 AM
Nah, a U320 drive will run at the U2W or U160 speeds just fine. They will even run single-ended if need be, but that trades off a lot of their performance. You may have been thinking of this drive, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6822111151 , but newegg does not currently have it in OEM packaging, just retail. I suspect $1,100 is out of the price range of most here.
Some of the distributors do have new, open-box SCSI drives at considerable discount. But the supply varies from day to day. Usually they are returns from persons who ordered 68-pin drives when they needed 80-pin SCSI and vice versa. As for hardware RAID SCSI cards, about the only source is eBay. How well they will work depends, as a lot of work on Mac suppport for SCSI started ending at the point OS X came out. About the only cards still getting driver development for OS X are from ATTO, and they do not sell a hardware RAID card the last I looked.
Some of the distributors do have new, open-box SCSI drives at considerable discount. But the supply varies from day to day. Usually they are returns from persons who ordered 68-pin drives when they needed 80-pin SCSI and vice versa. As for hardware RAID SCSI cards, about the only source is eBay. How well they will work depends, as a lot of work on Mac suppport for SCSI started ending at the point OS X came out. About the only cards still getting driver development for OS X are from ATTO, and they do not sell a hardware RAID card the last I looked.