On 9/19/2014 6:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Chuckle, A nice idea, if that 10k rpm SCA80 scsi drive was actually > dependable. We bought some video servers from Apple that had gangs of > those drives. They ran nice, for a few weeks. But Apple cannot yet design > a box for such AND put adequate cooling in it. When the 2nd one caught > fire, Jim said screw it and started building our video servers himself, > using slower sata drives in small raids. So we have a stack of those > drives, 5 or 6 that survived the burnups, haven't been spun up in years, > and servers hundreds of times more dependable. Running linux of course.
These are Hitachi Ultrastar drives from 2006. It's possible to make a 10K RPM drive that runs cool and totally silent. I once had a pair of 9gig Quantum Ultra 320 SCSI (not SCA80) drives in a desktop - very silent, very fast. Couldn't feel the slightest vibration even holding a drive in hand. Likely were hellaciously expensive when brand new. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
