[rescue] Old sci and ide drives

[Mike Katz]

You need to define the units for the conversion😁

 1. 12" Free standing removable Platter drives (IBM, HP, DEC, etc.)
 2. 10" Free standing removable Platter drives (IBM, HP, DEC, etc.)
 3. 19" x 10" Rack mounted drives (RK05, RL02, etc)
 4. 8" Winchester (Corvus and others).
 5. 5.25" Full height
 6. 5.25" Half height
 7. 3.5" Full eight
 8. 3.5" Half height
 9. 2.5" Full height
10. 2.5" low profile
11. IBM Compact Flash mini hard drives
12. NVME M.2-8
13. NVME M.2-6
14. NVME M.2-4
15. NVME M.2-2

And that's only the form factors I have personally experienced

On 3/13/2023 2:02 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue wrote:
> We need a conversion of number of drives needed for 1.0 acre-feet please :)
>
> Patrick
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>> In volume, it is about 40litres, and I'd like to get that down to 15l. I did$
> That seems unlikely unless you have significant contingent of really
> old drives, such as the 5.25" size that's often a good four inches
> high, because 50 drives adding up to 40 litres calls for a mean volume
> of 800ml per drive.  What these days passes for a full-size desktop
> drive is typically - where's that measuring tape - 2.6cm x 10.2cm x
> 14.6cm, about 1x4x6 inches, for about 388ml.  I've seen a few 4" drives
> that are more like 2" high, which is getting close to 800ml, but unless
> you don't have much smaller than that...and that seems unlikely if
> you've got U320 drives and the like.
>
> Though, I did once have an HP-IB disk that weighed about half what I do
> and took up something like three cubic feet.  It was about half a gig
> and, as a friend of mine once remarked upon looking at it (I was living
> in Montreal at the time), "when they nuke Montreal it'll be power
> failure that takes that drive down" (as opposed to the EMP).  Takes
> just one of those to push the mean volume-per-drive quite high. :-)
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