On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Philip Stortz wrote:
another option, if you have scsi would be an external scsi drive, or possibly an external ide drive (though it's not common, it can be done). i believe some of the g3 desktops had provisions for adding extra fans.
The SCSI on this Beige G3 Desktop 233Mhz is a slow SCSI, if I went external it would probably be Firewire, and that is a very interesting idea :)
which model exactly do you have (i.e. original, desktop, mini tower, etc.)? if i know i can check the manual and make better suggestions. if you've got an unused zip bay with better airflow, that might be an option as well. you can definitely get a power splitter cable and run an extra fan or two off the power
Yes, the zip bay is unused but seems even less ventilated than the drive bay at the bottom of the case.
one that moves more air, though this will likely be louder. a lot depends on your preferences as far as aesthetics, noise, and longevity. i have a love hate relationship with fans, i love what they do for reliability, but i hate the noise (particularly since i'm prone to migraine and cluster headaches which makes
Yes I am most concerned about noise, but some of these new large fans are very quiet indeed. I am thinking I might just go with the 5400rpm 2 Meg cache drive and take the performance hit, after all with such a low powered mac and the lame internal IDE, this might be a moot point.
ps, one other thing is to look at the power draw of different models, even within the same speed and size class, you can pretty much figure all the power will be turned into heat, so a drive that draws less power will be cooler. you might also consider mounting the drive so the chips are up, as they are some of the
Here are the drives I was looking at:
Maxtor DiamondMax 16, 60 gig, 5400rpm / 2Meg Cache
http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/data_sheets/ diamondmax_16_data_sheet.pdf
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, 60 gig, 7200rpm / 8Meg Cache
http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/data_sheets/ diamondmax_plus_9_data_sheet.pdf
The difference in price for these 2 drives here in my part of the world is only about USD11/=, hence the temptation to go with the higher spec one.
According to the pdfs, they both have the same temperature environmental limits but as expected the 7200rpm drive needs more juice (read as: churns out more heat). It also appears that the 5400rpm drive is a far quieter drive. I am beginning to think I should go with that drive and get a better night's sleep ;)
Thanks for the Input Philip.
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