MicroVax II question

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jan 7 05:58:20 2004

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 23:43, der Mouse wrote:
> >>> But some true classic computer users _LIKE_ noise! To me the more
> >>> noise a computer makes, the better!
>
> I once had the (mis)fortune to use a machine with a Seagate 2G
> Barracuda in it. I will cheerfully swap you my entire stock of those
> drives for otherwise equivalent _quiet_ drives of half the capacity.

Curious. Were there earlier and later models of those capacity drives?

I have a Sun drive array with 12 of those drives in and they aren't that
noisy (I don't tend to run it unless I need the storage space
temporarily just because of the power requirements though)

Actually I have two ex-SGI SCSI drives from roughly the same era
(rebranded IBMs, one a 8.6GB and the other a 4.3GB) in a PC and I'd say
they were louder than all 12 of the 'cudas running at once (that's even
with the case open on the sun array)

cheers

Jules
Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 05:58:20 GMT