From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 17:54:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08614 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08605 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA16162; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:52:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:52:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Drew Baxter cc: Wilko Bulte , karl@denninger.net, mlnn4@oaks.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981028192730.00af7730@genesis.ispace.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Drew Baxter wrote: > >> Frequent Fan Failures? Makes those Digital Storageworks cabinets come into > >> the limelight.. > > > >?? I do these things for a living but don't remember any real problems > >with the fans. Customers are normally pretty quick to point them out ;-) > > > >Tell me more.. > > That'd be Winter's department, i was just questioning it. Never > really wanted to buy anything from Kingston. The Digital Storageworks > cabinets look intriguing, but I don't have that kinda green to be > tossing around. I guess I'll just keep stacking smaller drives, and > look into something inane like RAID in the future. I read the DSW comment as "you think Kingston's have fan failures. Wait till you see a DSW." The DSWs on the toasters at work appear to be pretty good though I'm not even remotely involved with that hardware. The experiences with the Kingston enclosures I've had indicate that fan failure is somewhat frequent. 2 of the fans are -inside- the enclosure where it is difficult to hot-swap them. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message