OT: SCA Drives in StorageWorks SSB's

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Mon Aug 4 05:09:00 2003

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> This is a bit modern for the list, but I'm hoping someone here has some
> experience. I've just been given a pair of BA356 enclosures, and the
> one has 6 empty DS-RZ1CB-VW SSB's.
That is good :)

> The shelf itself is a BA356-KD with BA35X-MD 2X fans, and a BA35X-MH
> 16-bit I/O Personality Module.
OK.

> My question is, while the DS-RZ1CB-VW SSB's are intended for 4.3GB
> 7200RPM *SCA* drives, can they handle 9 or 18GB 10,000RPM SCA drives?
Yep. The size is not the problem... 10K or 15K drives *might* get a
little hot. I stuck several 18GB drives into 2.1GB carriers myself,
and had no trouble there.

Note that the creme/green carriers are for FAST10 (-VA (narrow) and -VW
(wide)) and the blue carriers are for FAST20 (Ultra) disks. Obviously,
you can stick FAST20 drives in an F10 carrier, but that wont do you
much good ;-)

Cheers,
        Fred
Received on Mon Aug 04 2003 - 05:09:00 BST