Drive speed [was: Re: [rescue] What sucks.]

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Scott Newell wrote:

> At 05:39 PM 7/25/2002 -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >Just buy a cheap PM8100 (or SS Classic, or etc), a scsi card, and a
> >cheap 92gigs of disk space (in the form of seagate elite 23s) from HD
> >outlet.  Wala, on cheap MP3 server.  Especially if you already have
>
> I was gonna ask how loud and cheap this would be, compared to, say, a large
> 5400 RPM IDE drive, but rather than shamelessly troll I'll just see how
> many commas I can fit in this sentence.

Use Elite-47's instead.  $50 or so from Ebay, cheaper per GB and hold
twice the data.  They're really not very loud as they only run at 5400rpm.
Keep in mind that with 5.25" platters, this translates to a 3.5" speed of
8100rpm at the outer edge.

-James