<div dir="auto">And rk07s in *my* basement! ;)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 5:07 PM Dave McGuire <<a href="mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com">mcguire@neurotica.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Yeah, pussies. ;) We've got RP06s and RK07s at LSSM!<br>
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-Dave<br>
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On 3/13/23 17:04, Mike Katz via rescue wrote:<br>
> You need to define the units for the conversionp <br>
> <br>
> 1. 12" Free standing removable Platter drives (IBM, HP, DEC, etc.)<br>
> 2. 10" Free standing removable Platter drives (IBM, HP, DEC, etc.)<br>
> 3. 19" x 10" Rack mounted drives (RK05, RL02, etc)<br>
> 4. 8" Winchester (Corvus and others).<br>
> 5. 5.25" Full height<br>
> 6. 5.25" Half height<br>
> 7. 3.5" Full eight<br>
> 8. 3.5" Half height<br>
> 9. 2.5" Full height<br>
> 10. 2.5" low profile<br>
> 11. IBM Compact Flash mini hard drives<br>
> 12. NVME M.2-8<br>
> 13. NVME M.2-6<br>
> 14. NVME M.2-4<br>
> 15. NVME M.2-2<br>
> <br>
> And that's only the form factors I have personally experienced<br>
> <br>
> On 3/13/2023 2:02 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue wrote:<br>
>> We need a conversion of number of drives needed for 1.0 acre-feet please :)<br>
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>> Patrick<br>
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>>> In volume, it is about 40litres, and I'd like to get that down to 15l. I did$<br>
>> That seems unlikely unless you have significant contingent of really<br>
>> old drives, such as the 5.25" size that's often a good four inches<br>
>> high, because 50 drives adding up to 40 litres calls for a mean volume<br>
>> of 800ml per drive. What these days passes for a full-size desktop<br>
>> drive is typically - where's that measuring tape - 2.6cm x 10.2cm x<br>
>> 14.6cm, about 1x4x6 inches, for about 388ml. I've seen a few 4" drives<br>
>> that are more like 2" high, which is getting close to 800ml, but unless<br>
>> you don't have much smaller than that...and that seems unlikely if<br>
>> you've got U320 drives and the like.<br>
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>> Though, I did once have an HP-IB disk that weighed about half what I do<br>
>> and took up something like three cubic feet. It was about half a gig<br>
>> and, as a friend of mine once remarked upon looking at it (I was living<br>
>> in Montreal at the time), "when they nuke Montreal it'll be power<br>
>> failure that takes that drive down" (as opposed to the EMP). Takes<br>
>> just one of those to push the mean volume-per-drive quite high. :-)<br>
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