To address the forth coming questions, I have already considered a wide variety of options ranging from recycling an existing ATA disk, buying a new SATA disk and controller, migrating to my existing RAID 5 array, and so forth.
For the moment, I simply want to know if anyone has any information or first hand knowledge with drives in the 9GB to 36GB range that are SCSI SCA and not insanely loud. I intend to run two in a software RAID 1 configuration, which I should've done in the first place, as I would've survived last night's disk failure and probably had time to purchase a replacment.
I've been hunting around on Ebay, but there's little useful information in the vendor specs for the drives I'm seeing, which are mostly Seagate 10K Cheetahs, Dells (just rebranded Seagate), Compaq (rebranded what?), and HP (rebranded what?) drives.
While I'd love to get something brand new in SCSI that actually has FDB, for that price I might as well buy a SATA controller or a sturdy external disk box for my SCA disks instead and have money to save!
Thanks.
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(The not necessarily relevant background: The system is a 370DLE mainboard based on ServerWorks IIILE chipset which only has slow ATA33 support on-board. I don't have two identical existing ATA disks to run in RAID 1 on it, as slow as it would be, anyway. I could run the OS on my RAID 5 data partition, but that would be far too slow and I don't have the free space to convert it to RAID 1+0 for decent OS performance. I could also buy an ATA100/133 expansive card, but, again, I have no spare ATA disks whereas I have an existing two drive SCA hotswap back with a U80 SCSI controller already, just waiting for two new disks.)