Date: Fri, 20 Jun 97 17:28:59 +0200 From: garyj@frt.dec.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available Message-ID: <9706201528.AA25614@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> of Fri, 20 Jun 97 03:37:07 PDT.
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jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: > Unless, of course, they had something like the AMES wind tunnel > providing forced airflow past the drives, then I suppose the plastic > sled construction wouldn't really matter much, would it? :-) > basically, the Storage Works thingies from DEC _do_ have a wind tunnel :) I have one of these things at home and it has 2 large fans on the back pushing (or pulling ?) air. I've seen some pretty big RAID arrays here at DEC, all made using plastic enclosures. They work good (although I have to agree with an earlier poster that those flimsy flex connections are pretty cheesy and *so* easy to ruin). --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org
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