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On May 4, 10:57 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 5/4/09, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I bought a few Quantum Atlas 10K drives, and also some > > Fujitsu 10K drives. These, understandably, ran pretty hot. IBMs don't heat up but they are noisier. I wanted to get a 15k 72GB Seagate, there is one that gets over 120MB/s, but I have to admit *I don't need it*. Scsi *is* much more reliable than IDE, and SATA is questionable. [If you are an HD video maker, you need a 1TB SATA drive. Otherwise, probably not, certainly not for an older machine]. Also in my experience the larger end of the drives are the more likely to fail. .. > > Picked up a GEN 1 quad 700Mhz PIII Xeon ProLiant DL380 from Micron for FREE. ughh pentium, intel, *II*, bad news (how about a quad 604ppc IBM RS/ 6000 ? well it goes the mars rovers... Huge Caches on those things) > > shouldn't be too difficult to make a passive SATA backplane and ditch the > entire SCSI setup in favor of a PCI-X (not PCIe) SATA RAID card. you could put a CELL board in there. .. but wait this is the vintage macs group. ------------ I just thought it would be good to remind people that a better 50pin drive used for backing up a vintage or a little newer mac could be also hooked up to a powermac w/ultra for a bit more speedy there at least, encouraging you to bring files back and forth. My older macs love presents. Sorry for the diversion. I do like scsi though - sorry, SATA guys ! I do like the underdog -- sorry, Intel guys! I do like an old mac ... better than a new one (its art and beauty and so forth) BTW if you like / have a lot of *small* files, even though your bus may be old and sludgy there is the fact that really small files read/ write at about 2% of the internal rate -- so the ultra drive will help you even on that vintage mac external 2.5MB/s bus... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
