Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:06:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 Message-ID: <199508281536.BAA23316@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <11556.809622886@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 08:14:46 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > Your barracuda has probably dropped off-line. How hot is it in your > case, anyway? :-) These drives get VERY WARM during operation and need > good ventilation to be happy! On hot days in badly designed cases, > they tend to go on vacation pretty predictably. Just on the 'cuda thread; I had opportunity to eyeball a pile of -4's tonight. Some observations for fans of big and fast disks, and particularly those that have met these drives before : - They're quiet. (Yes, sports fans, quiet) - They don't get very hot. (One busy unit packed in a small, convection-cooled case with its power supply was finger-touch warm - all of the drives had been running for over a week) I think that Seagate may be moving in the right direction with these puppies. (Mind you, they're as picky as all get-out about SCSI cabling and termination 8( ) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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