[SunRescue] Really Big Hardware That Makes Noise And Takes Up Space

[Dave McGuire]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com wrote:
>Get a six-foot rack full of old Fujitsu Eagle drives (SMD, 19" rackmount
>units, ~150 lbs. each, capacity ~400M except the Super Eagle which is
>nearer 600M). With four of them, there's space for a 12-slot VME rackmount
>chassis into which you can plug a pair of Xylogics 451 controllers to
>use the disks. Power consumption of one disk and the machine controlling it
>is about 1KW, continuous. It's loud and hot, too.

  Wow, yes.  Eagles are wonderful drives.  Very reliable, and very fast (though
not so fast on an xy451...for much better results, use a xy7053 or xy753!)

  I've used probably a hundred of those drives in my day...and have *never*
seen one fail!

              -Dave McGuire