From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 23 22:22:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01384 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:22:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01302 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA18410; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 01:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 01:22:06 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Doug Russell cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI Drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Doug Russell wrote: > Speaking of cooling, lots of fans are the hot ticket. (get it? :) ) It > might make the machine a little louder, but your components will love you > for it. I just put the last couple in the server here in my office for a > total of 6 fans (Counting the 1 CPU fan). 1 160 CFM monster in > the front, and 4 standard 3.whatever-they-are inch on the back panel. Being a big fan of trying to keep drives at room temperature while sticking as many as I can in a colo machine that has to be small, I'd love to see a picture of the box you described below. For a long time we shopped for "the ultimate PC enclosure" and it was always give and take. Room for drives, horrid airflow. Great airflow, room for two drives. Grrr. Anyone else here need to stuff lots of machines in a small space? What case do you use? How do you keep things cool? Our new build is most likely going to be a CalPC minitower, and I need to cram four drives and a CMD RAID controller in there, which takes one of the 5 1/4 slots up front. The case is nice, it has vents available for the front mount drives, the whole side of the case comes off easily, and you can slide the whole mobo cage out the back. What I really need now is a small "drive cage" to mount on the bottom for a few more drives... Thanks, Charles > > Makes great flow from the front to the back, and really sucks air past the > drives. (There are 10 exposed bays on the front, and I drill holes in the > bottom of the case to mount 4 hard disks to the bottom. They get great > cooling with the air flowing across the bottom and nothing within about 4" > above them. > > Too bad I don't have a picture on the web site yet. :) > > Later...... > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message