Adaptec SCSI Card 39160. What to do with it? [closed]

Question

Almost 10 years ago I bough an Adaptec SCSI Card 39160 for two Hitachi hard disks, with 80/68 pins adapters and cables and all the accoutrements.

The hard disks died after 2 years (so much for reliability), I eventually realized that SCSI was overkill and stowed it away for "future use" like a bonafide nerd pack rat.

I found it again 3 days ago during my hardware Summer cleaning. Tried it, still works.

I've been out of the server/networking loop for years now, so I don't know what's still relevant and what's not. Apparently Adaptec still sells it, but I tried to sell it on eBay, and, seriously, just 11 people even looked at it.

So, my question is simple: Is this card a hardware coprolite which can safely be thrown away, or would that be a sacrilege of some sort? Is this card still relevant or useful in any way?

Thanks in advance. And sorry if I'm asking this in the wrong place.

Oh, and lest you guys thing that this is some kind of underhanded method to sell this card...it's not. I'm just too much of a technopoltroon to throw this away without at least asking first if it's really that useless. :)

Answer 1

Throw it away.

SCSI is legacy - got long replaced with SAS / SATA (you can use SATA drives in a SAS enclosure) which is easier to deal with and provides a lot higher perofrmacne and can handle al ot more drives.

What to do with it depends on your living circumstances ;) Throw it away, donate it, put it under glass on the wall in your workroom ;) But using it is not worth it anymore.