From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 17:56:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09084 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09075 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4022.ime.net [209.90.195.32]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id UAA03432; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:56:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981028204823.00aefd40@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:49:51 -0500 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Cc: Wilko Bulte , karl@denninger.net, mlnn4@oaks.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981028192730.00af7730@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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