On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> There are lots of other 2G drives, some even from Seagate I think.
> There have been other Barracudas, not so noisy, though I think all the
> ones I've personally seen have been larger than 2G.
Barracudas came in 1.6" and 1" form factors. The 1.6 ones made
lots of singing, whiny noise.. the 1" ones (the -L or -LP ones)
didn't. Also, DEC used a lot of 2G disks from the HAWK line,
whuch were 5400rpm drives, contrary to the Barra's 7200rpm.
Sun pretty much only used Hawk's- also, because the Barra's got
too hot in the lunchbox cases :)
> For all I know it's possible that quiet 2G Barracudas exist, though I
> don't recall ever encountering one.
I havea lead to about 500 of em. Just gotta close that deal, and
go get em... all -LP ones.
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