World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Sun Dec 10 21:05:51 2000

>ajp166 wrote:

> ST225 is a good one, the 251 and 4096 were junk. The ST251
> was far to hot running to survive unless cooled with great effort.

Jerome Fine replies:

I don't see what the problem is. I have been running the Hitachi DK515-78
and the Hitachi DK516-15 drives now for a number of years. I admit that
the boxes they came in did have their own power supply and fan which I
removed when I tossed the boxes. But whenever I run the drives, I just
hang one of the fans right beside the drive to at least keep the drive at
close to room temperature. This seems to have worked very well since
on the few occasions I messed up, the drives became very hot indeed.
But the solution has been rather trivial and although it was made easy by
having a fan for every drive, it really was very easy to do this once I
realized that it was rather important. So, "great effort" - not at all. Just
a very minor precaution once the decision was made to have a fan available.

For instance, I run 3 DK515-78 drives on a BA23 box which are on the bench
all on top of each other. I also have 3 fans also on top of each other. Normally,
I run just the bottom drive and its fan since the other 2 drives are only for backup.
When I do a backup or compare (and sometimes even a restore), I just plug
in both the drive and its associated fan. Simple once it was all set up.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Received on Sun Dec 10 2000 - 21:05:51 GMT