quiet SCSI SCA drives?

[Simon J. Gerraty]

I powered down a bunch of machines while I was out of town for a week,
and my SS20 failed to come back up - lack of disk noise suggested the
disk had frozen (must be at least 5 years old so no surprise).

I had a SUN 1G drive in my spares box to confirm the above, but it is
way too noisy.

Can anyone recommend a suitable drive - the dead one is a
ST34371WC
it was a tad noisy but nothing like the 1G.
I'd assumed I want to avoid 10,000 RPM disks but that seems to be the
slowest scsi drives seagate make?

--sjg

[Timo Schoeler]

hi,

i like the Fujitsu SCSI HDs very much, i run them in my sgi's (Octane2,
O2), my Suns (SS20MP, U2E MP) and some other nice boxes.

i got 18GByte and larger drives, they're all 10.000rpm and got a huge
Cache. they are /very/ quiet and stay cool even in a not-so-good cooled
environment, and they're fast :) (have a look at [1] -- the temperature
is mentioned there, too)

you can get them pretty cheap at eDump (e.g.) nowadays...

HTH,

timo

[1] -- http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20020117/

[Rui Paulo]

I have an <IBM, DORS32160SUN2.1G, WA7A> connected to my SS20 and the disc
is really quiet. It does some noise when reading/writing but nothing special.

-- Rui Paulo