From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jul 9 11:47:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27627 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27617 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA07618; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:46:49 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199607091846.LAA07618@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Low noise 2 GB hard drive To: ewv@boom.bsdi.com (Eric Varsanyi) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607091840.MAA12079@boom.vars.com> from Eric Varsanyi at "Jul 9, 96 12:40:51 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> I'm looking for a 2 GB SCSI hard drive which is fast, reliable and > >> most important, quiet ("normal" SCSI, no wide or ulta-wide ones). > > > >Finding high performance drives that are quiet is a very hard. It's kinda > >like trying to make a top fuel funny car quiet... but I have just brought > >these drives in and they are reasonably quiet. > > I read (I think in EETimes a few months back) that there are "sleeves" that > you can put 3.5" drives in to quiet them down (it was in an article about > obstacles to having a set-top PC) - these sleeves are designed to conduct > heat while keeping the drive quiet. Don't try to put a 7200 RPM class drive in one of those ``sleeves'', it'll cook it in very short order. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD