[geeks] You forget how quiet the Mac Pro is until...

[mud at elbonia.org]

thats nothing until i fire up my vax 11/785, then
watch the world stand still.. god that thing is noisy.



On 6/23/07, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:52:21 -0400
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No.  I can beat that.  I have a stack of two IBM PC Server 704s with
> > 12  (!) 3.5 HH Seagate Cheetahs each.
> Pahh, only 24 drives. Once I rescued a DEC Storage Works RAID array.
> A "low boy" rack, front _and_ back filled with those noisy Cheetahs and
> SCSI to DSSI HW-RAID controlers. I can't remember the exact count of
> drives. I think it was in excess of 60 or so. (The array was connected
> to two clustered Alphas running VMS.)
>
> I still use one of those drives - as a doorstop. :-)
> --
>
>
> tsch|_,
>        Jochen
>
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