15,000RPM Ultrastar Drive - Help

KapteinFruit

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For a good while ago my father found two Hitachi Ultrastar HUS153014VL3800's on the subway. (He's a subway driver) Along with 8GB DDR RAM. It was probably someone who managed to forget it on the subway and it was probably someone who was going to use it in a server. It's a SCSI HDD so I'm wondering what I need to do to use it with SATA II? My brother said you need some transition thing that costs about £100. And they cost about £150 new here in Norway. What will he get for selling them? Is there a big market for them? They're both brand new, one is still in the wrapping while the other one isn't. And is it worth using in a normal PC? Or should we sell them? RAID 0 with two 15,000RPM drives must be insane.
 
SCSI drives are for servers. They are fast but they make a racket and the adaptors for them are expensive, usually a SCSI raid card is what you need and if you look around you will find out that they are not cheap. I really wouldn't bother with it.
 
SCSI drives are for servers. They are fast but they make a racket and the adaptors for them are expensive, usually a SCSI raid card is what you need and if you look around you will find out that they are not cheap. I really wouldn't bother with it.

Ok, then they will be sold. We're thinking of building a new PC. It will have an i3, 4GB 1333MHz RAM, a Gigabyte H57 motherboard, Fractal Design R3 case, 1TB SpinPoint F3, Cheftec 650W modular PSU. We're going tu use the onboard graphics. For some reason I find builds like that more interesting then high end monster builds. Sorry for not pusting full names of the parts. I just didn't bother.
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You get the general idea.

Anyways, how much do you think my dad will get for the drives when they cost about £150 new? So £300 both together.
 
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