Anyone interested in a scsi raid controller cheap?

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited July 2003 in Hardware
I got a group to go in once before and we bought FIVE of these and they bascialy came out to a hundred bucks a piece. I tested them and flashed them all to the newest bios and shipped them out to everyone. primesuspect from this site was one of trhe five lucky guys last time.

Here is a lot of TEN I have found in Ft. Worth near me.....but they are untested and not guaranteed with only one having a stick of ram but...

They have 18 hours left and they are at 240 bucks in auction. We could get them all for 350 or so maybe.

Anybody want to go in with me and take a chance here? I need like 5 or 6 guys to put up 50 bucks a piece and lets see if we can get these suckers and enough working ones for one a piece and sell the others if they work to get our mony back, If all ten happened to work we could have 6 good ones to keep and sell the other 4 for maybe 400 bucks and the six good ones would cost nothing.

Who wants a megaraid Elite 1600 controller? These are the ones I keep posting ATTO's like this one from.

Tex
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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    And in case anyone has any doubts, this guy doesn't screw around - he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money - I got a $1000 caching raid controller for $100. Trust Tex, this is a good deal.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I vote for this guy as well and he knows his stuff.
    I am interested Tex. Is there any chance to have one sent to Europe?

    Mac
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Just so you know Mack, I've sent PCI cards to the UK before for as little as $7.00.. So, I'm sure sending one to you won't cost much, probably under $20. luckily, they are very light :)
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    I'll ship anywhere that someone wants to pay the shipping for Bud.

    I ship to the North Pole if you can line up a dog sled team. last time I got them shipped to me, tested them and flashed them etc... and then shipped them out to each of the other five guys.

    These ten are NOT GUARANTEED so we are taking a chance but hopefully some of them work. If it got down to it and lets say only 5 worked and we had 5 guys and me in on the deal... I will step out of the deal and let you guys have them if you pay my share as I already have two anyway. But right now they are only at 240 bucks so they are 25 bucks a piece basicaly. If they end up at 300 bucks and only THREE work we did ok really as for 100 bucks a pop these are outrageous controllers. These do not include the ram but they take ecc (or non ecc) sdram. They say ecc but I ran my first one with ecc ram and it functioned fine.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    primesuspect said
    he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money -.

    LMAO. Wild ass ****ing cliams huh? LMAO.

    probably did have ya worried last tikme. I never even thought of it as wild ass claims as I had worked with these so much and knew what a deal they were.

    btw.... Did you see that huge ass rack of scsi driovers and cases I scored for free?

    Robin comes into the office arae now and screams and high tails her butt right back out of there.

    I want to sell some of that crap and get a couple nice computer rack chassis for the duallys I keep putting off.

    Tex
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Yeah I saw the thread about your amazing discovery at that company that was going under :eek2: You got so lucky with that deal, man!
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I need it shipped as a gift under 30 bucks if thats possible. Norweigan customs suck donkey.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    I'll wrap it up and make it a B-Day gift of you want dude. Will include a B-Day card and a dollar bill from Aunt Martha too if ya want.

    Tex
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    lol! Now THAT would be something to see. Gee Aunt Martha, that's quite an astute gift you got old Marcus there! How did you know I needed a 64bit PCI Caching RAID controller? ;D
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Tex said
    primesuspect said
    he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money -.

    LMAO. Wild ass ****ing cliams huh? LMAO.

    Tex

    Yes!! LMAO. Tex, you have the best eye for a bargain EVER. Period.

    Seriously anyone interested, Tex will flash em, test em and see you right :thumbsup:
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    primesuspect said
    Yeah I saw the thread about your amazing discovery at that company that was going under :eek2: You got so lucky with that deal, man!

    They were not going under. They had stored some of their older stuff in this building and they got the buiilding when they bought out one of their competitors. This is a HUGE printing company with million dollar heidelberg presses. They replaced that 12 rack scsi pile with a single rack of modern 73gb drives.

    But that DLT library is making me cry. The buddy found it and laid claim before I saw it.... (grin)

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    We need money up and in place in 18 hours. Clock is ticking here guys... If we don't get enough people and the ones already in don't want to go above 50 bucks I just PayPal the money right back to ya. Same if we don't win the auction.

    I don't have to have the money to bid.. But I need only firm guys that won't back out cause if we win the money has to get moved so we can pay pretty quick. Would prefer guys that I know from one of the sites I post on just so I know they are serious and in for the ride.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    Dazzling ehhhhh.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Tex said
    Dazzling ehhhhh.

    Goddamn it! Don't you hate it when someone just dangles that carrot that little bit closer! ;D
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    Makes me want to wet my pants and I own two of these already for christ sake.

    I'm the LAST guy that needs one... But "want" and "need" seem to be hard for me to seperate.

    I bet flintstone goes in again. With Mackanz thats two if he is serious.

    Tex
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited July 2003
    If I didn't need the money for my wedding, I would buy a couple. :(
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    rhino.... tisk tisk tisk.... (grin) trust me here... wives come and wives go but raid controllers last a lifetime!

    Just Kidding Congrats on the wedding man !

    Tex
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited July 2003
    Hopefully, this one will last a long time.
    It's just so tempting to get the raid controller.
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited July 2003
    Maybe if you could find a deal on some scsi drives it would be too tempting to pass up. ;)
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    I pay about 45 bucks a pop for the Atlas 10k III's. The fuji maps are getting cheaper and are much faster but still more expensice too.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    This guy isnt far from my house. I emailed asking if I could test a couple. I just want to see the scsi bios show up and know they are not dead. If I tested two or three even and they showed the bios I would feel a lot better about the deal.

    I bet he does not let me test them though but it was worth a try.

    Tex
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    he's got a good feedback rating. Doesn't seem like he's trying to screw people over. hopefully he lets you check 'em out. Count me in, I want one. wanna feel that 15k speed!
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    btw, these take standard SDRAM? does it have to be 128MB too?
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    aaahhhhh damn it! it requires a 64 bit PCI slot doesn't it? ARRRGHGHRHHRG...
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    No they fit in 32 or 64 bit slots. I have never tested performance in a 32bit slot to be honest though.

    They take normal sdram. It really wants ecc stuff. But I ran mine without. It was picky about the number of chips and crap on it to see it right. I finally thru a 512mb stick in that it saw as 128mb. I tried a 256 it saw as 64 etc... The online docs detail exactly what the stick should be.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    kanezfan said
    he's got a good feedback rating. Doesn't seem like he's trying to screw people over. hopefully he lets you check 'em out. Count me in, I want one. wanna feel that 15k speed!

    And none of my drives are 15k. The differance in speed versus noice isnt real big on older drives. Some of the older 15k drives had a pretty nasty whine to them and they run HOT too.

    The new 15k's are much much better. If you buy used you might want to stick to 10k drives.

    I love the Atlas 10k III's. Dead quiet and not to hot.

    Tex
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    even if used on a 32 bit PCI slot, (btw, my KX7-raid doesn't have a 64 bit PCI slot does it? :D) it should still be noticeably faster than a 7200 RPM raid-0 array shouldn't it?
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Tex said
    No they fit in 32 or 64 bit slots. I have never tested performance in a 32bit slot to be honest though.

    They take normal sdram. It really wants ecc stuff. But I ran mine without. It was picky about the number of chips and crap on it to see it right. I finally thru a 512mb stick in that it saw as 128mb. I tried a 256 it saw as 64 etc... The online docs detail exactly what the stick should be.

    Tex

    Can it be a singlesided versus a doublesided issue? I think it MAY only like singlesided ones.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    I think most the ones I was trying were single sided. The two I have running here are both using the battery backed sticks of ram. I can read ya off chip numbers or anything you want off them though.

    Tex
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited July 2003
    Everyone can absolutely trust Tex for this. Tex always delivers but just be patient. I waited a good long time for my purchase from him...actually it was from a member named FLINTSTONE who shipped it to Tex while he tested it. He found 3 drives for me and then added personal items to the package that he eventually shipped to me.

    Tex went above and beyond. Everything arrived under the radar of customs and it was all incredibly well packed in foam.

    Five stars for buying off Tex. Make sure you put a little extra in there to buy him a beer or two. Don't be afraid of shipping him a check in advance either. He'll deliver!
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