[rescue] Old sci and ide drives

[John Hudak]

And rk07s in *my* basement! ;)



On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 5:07 PM Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> 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
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mouse via rescue"<rescue at sunhelp.org>
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> >> Cc: "Mouse"<mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
> >> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2023 12:55:51 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> >> Subject: Re: [rescue] Old sci and ide drives
> >>
> >>> 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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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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