On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:47:25PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:

> >My (pizzabox) SS2 came with 2x411Mb full-height Sun harddisks. The much
> >newer 2 gig & 4 gig half height drives that I have replaced them with run
> >a lot cooler than the Sun originals, they consume less power and have more
> >airspace around them because they are smaller, so I consider this an
> >improvement. I would agree, however, that the PSU on any sun4c is pretty
> >old and the less load you give it and the cooler the box runs the better
> >(I will be moving some disks out into 411s when I find some at the right
> >price).
> 
> I have an SS2 running NetBSD 4.1.3 that is the Big Brother server for my
> network, It is running off an internal Micropolis 4gig drive and has been at
> the job since late 1999. Longest uptime 200+ days.

I have two IBM Ultrastar 9GB 7200rpm drives in my SS5 server.  Been that way
for about a year with no troubles.

Definitely gets warm, but so far I've had no trouble.

Of course, this is good, since I've also not found a way to cool an SS5 any
better.

I would probably work to build some kind of box to fit on the right side,
which would have a fan in it, to force air into the system.  The fans in the
PS would limit the throughput though, at least I think so.  The trouble too is
finding a fan with enough CFM that doesn't draw a lot of power or is not
noisy.

Then another idea I had was to evacuate or add air through an sbus slot
opening.

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