Date: Mon, 14 Apr 97 8:14:28 CDT From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: maartje@simplex.nl (Maartje van der Heide) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, maartje@simplex.nl Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine? Message-ID: <199704141314.IAA05282@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199704141004.MAA13222@xs1.simplex.nl> from "Maartje van der Heide" at Apr 14, 97 12:04:37 pm
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> Now, is this just bad luck, since we had the micropolis harddisks > working for one and half year without a single problem? > The rotational speed is 7200 rpm, is it too much for a newsmachine > (will it heat up too much) ? Or will there be no problem when I > buy a separate box to hold (and cool) the disks? As much as anything is up to chance and luck where hard drives are concerned, I've had rather bad luck with the 3243's as well, and would not consider buying one for most applications - particularly news. I _really_ like the Seagate Hawk drives. You can probably get a pair of Hawk 2GB's for the same price as the 3243, and they'll be faster overall. I use the 1GB variety, but the 2GB'ers seem to be the same... I've seen one failure out of sixty or eighty of the 1GB drives in the last year, IIRC. They run cool, even if you don't cool them properly. You don't have to worry like you do about the Barra's. (The new Barra's run almost as cool, however). ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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