[SunRescue] Re: expensive paperweights

[Gil Young]

One thing I have experienced, is that these huge 5.25 drives were built 
like tanks, I think I have only seen 2 fail in my career (about 11 
years).  And one was because the room got to 140+ degrees farenheit (for 
the 3rd time :( )  coz of an A/C problem.

the flip side is heat and power, they are both more $ to run these 
beasts.  probably on the order of  3-4X the cost versus a slow spinning 
3.5" drive.  Rule of thumb is that at 8 cents/KWH, a 100 watt device costs 
about $8/month to run 24/7.

Generally I would trust the drive to last and last and last, but I think 
two 3.5" drives mirrored is even more trustworthy and cost effective in the 
long run.

Now if someone else were paying the electric bill, I would go for the "big 
9" or the 27 gig versions that are also relatively cheep. :):):).

Gil

At 10:09 AM 5/30/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 30 May 2001, Dan Debertin wrote:
> >
> > For those of you still buying full-height drives for your dinosaurs,
> > everybody seems to be liquidating their supplies of Seagate Elite 9's.
> > One example:
> > http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-4108
> >
> > $25 for 9GB ... I just bought two and am taking an opportunity to get to
> > know DiskSuite. They are remarkably quiet, but very hot.
> >
> >
>
>Good morning all,
>
>  I've also seen these drives going fairly inexpensively, and was
>considering purchasing one for use in a PC (external case)... aside from
>running hot, would one want to trust a drive like this?
>
>  I am wondering if it would be worth it to build a system with these
>drives, would I get decent performance out of them, or should I just
>forget it and go with a 3.5" form factor drive?
>
>  For a server I probably wouldn't care as much... but for a personal
>computer (and potential college computer), I don't want things to go awry
>a couple months into the semester.
>
>  Thanks.
>
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