First post, by sgraffite
I have a dual Pentium III 1.266GHz system (HP Server tc3100) that has a five drive SCA backplane. Currently it has two 36GB SCSI drives in it, but I was thinking of replacing them with something quieter.
I also have an Sil3114 PCI card that I could flash and use a SATA drive and mount that in the case somewhere (there are no other mount points for drives unless I use an adapter for a 5.25" bay). I still need to flash the firmware it so it doesn't require RAID to function. Currently trying JBOD it acts like it can't see the drives. It does kind of seem like a waste to not use the SCA slots, but I have plenty of SATA drives that are not noisy.
Locally on Craigslist someone is selling some Seagate ST936701SS SAS drives for $8 each. Would it be possible to use these in the SCA slots? I don't have any experience with SAS. I'd assume these would be quieter as they are smaller, but there's a chance they would not be.
I have Ubuntu 14.04 server installed on it currently for use as a for fun web server if that matters.
Thoughts?