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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 97 17:28:59 +0200
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available 
Message-ID:  <9706201528.AA25614@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>  of Fri, 20  Jun 97 03:37:07 PDT.

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jkh@time.cdrom.com writes:
> Unless, of course, they had something like the AMES wind tunnel
> providing forced airflow past the drives, then I suppose the plastic
> sled construction wouldn't really matter much, would it? :-)
> 

basically, the Storage Works thingies from DEC _do_ have a wind tunnel :)
I have one of these things at home and it has 2 large fans on the back
pushing (or pulling ?) air.

I've seen some pretty big RAID arrays here at DEC, all made using
plastic enclosures. They work good (although I have to agree with
an earlier poster that those flimsy flex connections are pretty cheesy
and *so* easy to ruin).

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Gary Jennejohn				(work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com
					(home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de
					(play) gj@freebsd.org





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