At 11:17 +0000 11/24/2002, pdimage.fsnet.co.uk wrote: >>2 GB Barracudas may be new in the sense of never being ussed, but >>they are not new. I don't think Seagate has made a drive that small >>in quite some time. Are these 32550s?
> Good guess - ST32550W model remanufactured under licence - I've >given up on them as they are a complete no show on the int scsi so >whatever's written on them is gibberish to a mac. I bought them as >Seagate ST32550W Barracudas and didn't know about the Compaq branding - >sending them back for a credit. Good plan. I bought several of these new back around 1995. At the time they were very fast drives. Their top sustained rate is 6 MB/s, regardless of what SCSI bus you attach them too. That is, put them on a Fast & Wide bus (20 MB/s theoretical) and you'll still only get 6 MB/s out of these drives. That was fast way back when. It's dog slow now. Additionally, they are very loud. These are some of the very first 7200 rpm drives and they whine like a spoiled child before nap time. Furthermore, they produce a lot of heat and are prone to failure if you do not cool them with a fan on each drive. I wouldn't go in to all the detail, given that you're sending them back any way, but I like to try to warn others. I get to post a message similar to this one at least once a year. The ST32550 (W, N, ND or WD) (2GB), the ST15150 (N or W) (4GB) and the ST410800 (N or W) (8 or 9 GB) turn up very often for sale. They even turn up "new". They are all about seven years old even if they haven't been used. The first two are slow and hot and loud but they carry the Barracuda name. They were fast in their day. That day is long gone. The last one is an okay drive for archival storage. It's slow, but it's not hot and other than some washing machine sounds when it's accessing data, it's not too loud. But it is a Full Height 5.25" drive. That means it is the size of *TWO* CDROM drives stacked on top of each other. Before drives got so incredibly cheap, it was a nice drive to put in an inexpensive external case and use for off-line storage. Now days, 9 GB of storage is so cheap, there's not much point in going to the trouble. Anyway, unless you have some bizarre need, I'd avoid all the above mentioned drives now days. The first two are more trouble than they're worth (heat and noise) and the last one just takes up too much space. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
