[SunRescue] SparcstationIPC

[Steve Pacenka]

> Get a newer IBM narrow 7200rpm hard disk and you're fine.  Their 10krpm
> drives run remarkably cool, their 7200s are just about room temp.  Very
> reliable too.
> 	Nick

I use IBM ultrastar and deskstar drives by preference too.

Would a 7200rpm drive have an advantage over a 5400rpm in an IPC w/36-48M RAM, 
performance wise?  Context would be a small workgroup headless file server 
(Samba or NFS) environment.

-- SP



> 
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Steve Pacenka wrote:
> 
> > > >>Alternatively I could probably get hold of a bigger scsi drive, does
> > > >>anyone know what size drive an IPC can support?
> > > 
> > > Anything that will fit in the cakebox.  The catch is that the / partition
> > > must be in the first 2gig of the drive or the machine will not boot from it.
> > > If I were to put in a large drive I'd usually make a 2gig / and the rest
> > > /usr - minus swap of course.  Although you'll find that people will argue
> > > partitioning almost as much as they argue which distro to use. ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > I'm about to do the same thing as Dan (IPC+new HD+Debian) with two IPCs. 
> > Couldn't get anywhere trying to boot Linux on a very old IBM RS/6000 40p 
> > lacking any OS, so the IBM will donate its 500M + 1G drives to a pair of IPCs. 
> >  (Is this a cross species organ transplant? :^) )
> > 
> > Wouldn't heat be a major limiting factor in the itty-bitty IPC box?
> > 
> >   REF: http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/ulti_fan_hack/
> > 
> > -- regards, SP
> > 
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