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

[Mark]

On 22 Jun 2007, at 07:30, Mark wrote:

> On 22 Jun 2007, at 00:05, Aaron Finley wrote:
>
>> On 6/21/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...you switch on a U60 with a pair of 1.6" IBM 36GB drives in :) It
>>> was good to use the old beasty again tho - it still makes me glow
>>> using Solaris 10 on it. It's  also currently still the most RAM
>>> infested machine on my desk at a mere 1.5GB.
>>
>> Bah. What you need is a Dell PowerEdge 1850 in the same room with you
>> to give you true perspective.
>
> I do know what you mean - We have an Poweredge 1800 tower at work.
> Actually if you keep the room temperature low ours is not that loud,
> but ours only has 2 SATA disks in so it's bound to be the case.

Ah yeah, I just remembered they are 1U. Oh the agony. The pure,  
unadulterated agony of sitting next to a 1U server unit. My Netra T1  
105 is bad enough, but gets significantly worse when I fore up the  
D130 underneath it :).

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