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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:13:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        daniel@icon.pp.se (Daniel Eriksson)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Low noise 2 GB hard drive
Message-ID:  <199607092213.RAA24844@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607092047.WAA00457@icon.pp.se> from "Daniel Eriksson" at Jul 9, 96 10:47:19 pm

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> just a couple of degrees above room temperature). My old Micrpolis
> 4110 (1GB, 5400rpm, 8.5ms) on the other hand generates loads of
> heat and I wouldn't dare running it without a fan.
> 
> Both drives are lightly loaded and I have no idea what would happen
> if the drives got hit by a full newsspool, but then again, we are
> talking about desktop "set-top" computers, and they rarely serve
> as newsservers, do they?

I've a 4110 running on spool.mu.edu's news spool (Solaris 2.5.1, SPARC 10/30)
It's a really nice drive and has had no problems - excellent performance.

I'm not a Micropolis fan, but they do make some good drives (and some bad
ones too).

... JG



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