Server connector help

[JackDCornwall]

Hello

 

I am building a NAS out of an old dell PC (for fun/learning/backing up my data).

 

The case I am building it in is an old server case (because it was a new in box barn find) the case is an intel SC5100 I believe from 2002?!?. My question is as follows: the server case has some hot swap bays but they aren't SATA (as far as I can tell) and they connect to the motherboard via some ribbon cable. What are these connectors? are they still used? Can I get some adapters to connect via these to a non-server mother board?

 

Pictures attached.

 

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

 

 

 

 

[tkitch]

brooooooooooooooooooooo

 

That is some OG SCSI bullshit.

 

That stuff is ooooooooooold!

 

uhhhh, no, you're 110% not gonna re-use any of that stuff for anything even pretending to be modern.

[JackDCornwall]

11 hours ago, Caroline said:

Parallel SEXY 80 pin connectors. Could be converted to ATA then SATA but the speeds would be painfully slow lol

 

Still a great find

 

I think if I have all those adapters the hot swap bays wouldnt work as intended anyway ahaha.

At least I can still build my NAS inside it

[tkitch]

For reference:
Those SCSI connectors ran over the PCI bus.  

A SATA SSD is way too fast to run over PCI, it's be a hell of a bottleneck to try it.  

[Needfuldoer]

One SATA SSD will be faster than anything you can plug into that SCSI backplane, and I think the largest Ultra SCSI 320 drives were just 300 gigs, anyway. 
 

Just get a couple modern SATA drives. Leave old SCSI tech in the past. 

[Blue4130]

8 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

One SATA SSD will be faster than anything you can plug into that SCSI backplane, and I think the largest Ultra SCSI 320 drives were just 300 gigs, anyway. 
 

Just get a couple modern SATA drives. Leave old SCSI tech in the past. 

Not to mention reliable. A new drive should be much more reliable than a 20 year old drive.