The fibre channel storage industry is virtually throwing away older technology that cant compete with
the newer solid state disks. I was able to get 5 Hitachi Ultrastar 15k450 FC almost for free, part number (HUC154545VLF400). I want to try to use these HDDs on my PC. The motherboard I am currently using
is Gigabyte GA EX38 DQ6 which has the nice Intel Matrix storage manager .
In my research I found that these hard drives are equal in speed to SSD except for slight mechanical start up latency- they are smokin fast, way faster than SATA. Also that I would need a very $$y 4gb Host Bus Adapter controller (x4 PCIe) BUT WAIT these too can be found for 10 cents on the original SRP.
Now it looks like I can jimmy rig this together, with waiting out for the throwing away of this "old" tech, I should be able to get a working RAID for cheap?
Here is where I need further help: what else should I look for at the recycle shop to help me with this project? It looks like I should find a backplane? What cabling then? It look as if VISTA will recognise all the parts and I should be able to boot from this disk array.
I hope my drift of what I am triing to do is caught here. I would love any suggestions to help on this quest.
Should I go for it or am I really wasting my time?
the newer solid state disks. I was able to get 5 Hitachi Ultrastar 15k450 FC almost for free, part number (HUC154545VLF400). I want to try to use these HDDs on my PC. The motherboard I am currently using
is Gigabyte GA EX38 DQ6 which has the nice Intel Matrix storage manager .
In my research I found that these hard drives are equal in speed to SSD except for slight mechanical start up latency- they are smokin fast, way faster than SATA. Also that I would need a very $$y 4gb Host Bus Adapter controller (x4 PCIe) BUT WAIT these too can be found for 10 cents on the original SRP.
Now it looks like I can jimmy rig this together, with waiting out for the throwing away of this "old" tech, I should be able to get a working RAID for cheap?
Here is where I need further help: what else should I look for at the recycle shop to help me with this project? It looks like I should find a backplane? What cabling then? It look as if VISTA will recognise all the parts and I should be able to boot from this disk array.
I hope my drift of what I am triing to do is caught here. I would love any suggestions to help on this quest.
Should I go for it or am I really wasting my time?