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

[Koyote]

Well... I lack a large capacity 5.25" full height enclosure. Actually, I may have 1, but I certainly lack one that would hold 4 drives, for example.

I've got 20g on file server now, my problem is really that I need ~ 100gig for everything.

And that is hard to afford right now, 12 9gig drives would run $300 plus a 12 bay diff. enclosure....

-C


On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:25:54PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> 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
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