[rescue] quiet SPARCstation

[Steve Pacenka]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 09:45, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> My experience with the sun4c boxes is that USUALLY [1] it is the hard drive
> that is making so much noise.  Heck, even my Ultra 1 got much quieter
> when I replaced it's drive with 2 7200rpm IBM drives [2].
> 
> Now, I don't know how you shop for quiet drives...  I've found the
> quieter ones by sheer luck.

Some more data points on hard drives:

I've used a couple of dozen Seagate, Fujitsu, and IBM SCSI and IDE
drives in the past couple of years.  My quietest 50-pin SCSI drives were
IBM DDRS-34560 (4.3G, 7200 RPM) and DDRS-39130 (9.1G, 7200).  (IBM
ATA-66 7200 RPM drives have also been fairly quiet.)  Older Seagate 7200
RPM 4G Barracudas were noisiest SCSI models.

-- SP