Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:49:51 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, karl@denninger.net, mlnn4@oaks.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <4.1.19981028204823.00aefd40@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810282050070.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <4.1.19981028192730.00af7730@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 08:52 PM 10/28/98 -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Drew Baxter wrote: >> >> Frequent Fan Failures? Makes those Digital Storageworks cabinets come into >> >> the limelight.. >> > >> >?? I do these things for a living but don't remember any real problems >> >with the fans. Customers are normally pretty quick to point them out ;-) >> > >> >Tell me more.. >> >> That'd be Winter's department, i was just questioning it. Never >> really wanted to buy anything from Kingston. The Digital Storageworks >> cabinets look intriguing, but I don't have that kinda green to be >> tossing around. I guess I'll just keep stacking smaller drives, and >> look into something inane like RAID in the future. > >I read the DSW comment as "you think Kingston's have fan failures. Wait >till you see a DSW." > >The DSWs on the toasters at work appear to be pretty good though I'm not >even remotely involved with that hardware. > >The experiences with the Kingston enclosures I've had indicate that fan >failure is somewhat frequent. > >2 of the fans are -inside- the enclosure where it is difficult to hot-swap >them. > Heh I'll stick with smaller-level devices for the time being.. I think life is easier that way :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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