[rescue] Old sci and ide drives

[Mike Katz]

Would those count as free standing drives or were they extra large rack 
mounted?

On 3/13/2023 4:07 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Yeah, pussies. ;)  We've got RP06s and RK07s at LSSM!
>
>             -Dave
>
> On 3/13/23 17:04, Mike Katz via rescue wrote:
>> You need to define the units for the conversionp

>>
>>  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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