On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:52:58PM -0600, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > About a year ago I got a SparcStation 20. The machine has two internal > hard drives, each 1 gig. I put Debian Woody on it - worked like a champ > of course - and fiddled around with the machine for a while. > Unfortunately the disk space on that machine is just so limited that I > haven't done much with the machine lately, so now I'm wanting to get > some larger hard drives for the machine and update my installation. > > The machine needs to use SCSI drives with an 80-pin connector, and the > drives must be skinny - about 1" high or so. I've hunted around a bit > for drives like this, but not found much other than the drives Sun > offered for the machine way back when, and the largest of those was > about 4 Gig. I'm wanting to get at least 10 Gig per drive if possible. > > I'm hoping that some of you can suggest a few places to look for drives > for this machine, or can recommend a specific drive or two in > particular. Thanks in advance.
Forgive me if this doesn't apply to your situation at all, but I agonised over this for a short while, a long time ago, and tried to hunt through the 4 zillion used scsi drives available on ebay, but in the mean time I needed a bunch more disk space _right now_ so I set up an NFS mount. I use a super cheapo 566MHz celeron system as a gateway/firewall/stepping stone for my network, and I thought I would use part of the hardly used 80GB drive on there temporarily. Turned out to be way faster than any local drive, so now I switched the whole machine over to NFS root. Much faster machine all around, for building/compiling, you name it. I still end up using only about 6GB on the serve-ette, and I have a little script to spin down the local drives during the bootup. I keep the kernel on the local drive, so it boots off of there, then mounts the root off of NFS. Works great. Just thought I would share this bit o' knowledge with the list. It's also super quiet after it spins down the local drives. Caveats: you have to have another system on when using your SS, you do need to have a 10/100 card (I got a cheapo bigmac based card off ebay). Added benefit: when you backup your server, you backup your SS. a
