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IDE to SCSI Converters?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-well-do-they-work dept.

ericdano asks: "Addonics has announced a pair of SCSI solutions, which convert common ATAPI devices and IDE hard drives to high-speed SCSI devices on all Windows, Macintosh, and Linux-based computers: the IDE-SCSI converter ($100) for hard drives and the ATAPI-SCSI converter ($110) for ATAPI-based CDRW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM or CD-ROMs. The company has also announced a high-performance single-channel Ultra160 SCSI PCI host controller ($170) with 160MB/sec. data throughput. How safe are these products?"

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  1. Great Deal by 0x20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, I'm so tired of paying a premium for SCSI drives with half the capacity, etc. I'd much rather pay $100 each to convert my IDE drives to low-quality, high seek-time SCSI drives.

  2. Re:Yeah, right... by phagstrom · · Score: 2, Funny


    Yeah, right. By putting my old IDE disk in this controller it will be faster? Right.

    Sure!!! You'll probably get this cool little sticker that say "Fast Ultra-Wide SCSI" to put on your old hard drive over the "damn slow ide" sticker that's already there. That'll speed things up right away......or not

  3. Re:Yeah, right... by Tower · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, add that, a "Type-R" sticker, a couple pounds of vinyl tape, a glass pack muffler for your CPU fan, and I bet your computer will be faster than ever...

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  4. As long as you pay for it with your Visa card. by Glonoinha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two 80G IDE hard drives : $200.
    Two ATAPI-SCSI adapters : $200.
    A new SCSI controller : $170.
    Time spent telling us about it on /. : $4
    Benchmarking the upgraded system and learning you took a 9% performance hit : Priceless.

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    Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
    1. Re:As long as you pay for it with your Visa card. by red_dragon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Learning that you paraphrased a MasterCard commercial thinking it was a Visa one: -1 D'oh!

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  5. INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS!!!! by The+Iconoclast · · Score: 5, Funny
    How safe are these products?

    Be warned!!! These products are INCREDBILY DANGEROUS!!

    These converters can cause Spontaneous Incinerations, Plague, Pestilince and Famine, Birth Defects, Sour Milk, Global Thermonuclear Annihilation, Premature Baldness, Tire Sidewall Blowout, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Acid Reflux Disease, Parachute Deployment Malfunction, O-Ring Seal Degredation, Spurious Airbag Inflation, Mass Hallucinations, Alien Invasion, Asteroid Impact, Genetic Mutations, and Loss of Balance to the Force!

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    Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
  6. Re:Yeah, right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    i bet you'll find a motherboard with 8 PCI slots at the same place you'll find a case that will hold 30 hard drives