Subject: Re: U1/U2 disc recommendations?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/23/2002 19:29:02
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hi,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:59:54AM +0200, der Mouse wrote:
> I'm working with a U1 and a U2.  They've currently got Seagate
> Barracudas in them, and everything works fine, but they're _noisy_
> little buggers.  (The machines themselves are nice and quiet...until
> the disks spin up.)
>=20
> Anyone have a recommendation for SCA drives (ie, U1/U2 compatible)
> that are (a) at least some two or three gig and (b) quiet?

i use 9.1GB IBM and i am very satisfied with it.  very quiet and cool
(something i cannot say about 9.1GB barracudas i have, one can roast
eggs on them.. :)

mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Ultra-1
[...]
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, DDRS39130SUN9.0G, S98E> SCSI2 0/direc=
t fix ed
sd0: 8637 MB, 4926 cyl, 27 head, 133 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17689267 sectors
sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing

the bigger drives either from IBM or Seagate are quite nice too (18.2GB,
33.6GB and above) but somehow expensive as well..

regards,

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