Jeff Walther wrote:
> 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. The ST15150 and the ST410800 were very popular in the first generations of RAID arrays, which explains why they are available in such quantities even today. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
