[geeks] Ultra-1/170e replacement

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 @ 09:53 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:16:59PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > Nah... I've concluded this isn't a workable thing.
> > 
> > The performance would be dismal.
> > 
> > I have mostly SCSI drives right now, but was thinking of cutting down on
> > noise and drive count by going with larger and quieter IDE drives.
> 
> Have you considered firewire or USB2.0 drives?

Does an Ultra 5 have either of those interfaces?

In any case, getting decent enclosures seems expensive, and so far I've
been disappointed with the performance of those setups.

Also, I should mention that yes, I know that newer SCSI drives are quiet
too.

It's mostly my older 9 and 18 gig IBM Ultrastars are a little noisy.

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