On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hi there fellow PLUGgers,
>
> Please pardon the extremely off-topic hardware "what do you think about
> this" e-mail. I am sorry for wasting your precious bandwidth.
>
> I plan to upgrade and add a Barracuda ATA-II hard drive (ST330630A). This
> will be the second hard drive of my system that I leave on 24x7 and don't
> attend to daily (I'm normally in school). Things have been okay so far,
> but I want to preempt possible thermally-related problems by mounting
> (physically) the hard drives in what are called mobile racks. I got the
> following link which may be helpful in the evaluation of this particular
> product:
>
> <http://www.villman.com/products/specs/accessor/hddrackf.asp>
>
> Any comments, please? I was hoping for "go get it" versus "don't even
> think about that chunk of plastic" comments. BTW, my supplier's selling
> these to me for P600 each, FWIW.
>
> Orly: you're using Barracuda's right? What do you think about them? So far
> so good? I'm planning to use the ST330630A for my primary drive, then I'll
> use my existing 20GB IBM DJNA as the second element of my RAID1 set,
> mirroring a partition of exactly the same size on the Barracuda. :-)
>
Why are you getting the rack?
1. for cooling? If so there are drive bay fans which can do the work for you
much better than these racks.
2. for hot swap convenience with RAID1? Forget it. IDE drives weren't
designed to be hot swapped. You'll probably just bust up your drive that way.
3. for overall replacement convenience? Well i guess nothing can beat that
setup, but how often will you be swapping drives anyway?
So that being said, in my servers deployed in the field, i normally use the
drive bay fans only, and use the racks only for some cases which are difficult
to open (or need the added functionality of quickly swapping drives).
HTH
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