From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jul 9 11:41:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27330 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boom.vars.com (boom.BSDI.COM [205.230.226.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA27322 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boom.vars.com (localhost.vars.com [127.0.0.1]) by boom.vars.com (8.7.3/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA12079; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:40:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607091840.MAA12079@boom.vars.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien), freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low noise 2 GB hard drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 10:45:48 PDT." <199607091745.KAA07383@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 12:40:51 -0600 From: Eric Varsanyi 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. -Eric