Rumor has it that Jay West may have mentioned these words:
>I believe the CDROM could be absconded with. I'd have to check. Heat
>shouldn't be too much of a problem... as I recall that system has one of
>those horizontal "squirrelcage" type blowers in it and it moves some serious
>air!
Yes, they do very well for their size, don't they? ;-)
>The floppy drive in that case is a slim-line unit, can't put in a regular
>size one.
Then don't put in a regular sized one -- put in a laptop drive with a 2.5"
to 3.5" adapter (which might have to be modified... that's what Dremel
tools are for! ;-) ), and use that rascal as a backup drive. That's what
I've been thinking of doing... especially now that they have 7200RPM laptop
drives. 'Course, just for fun, could you see a couple of those raided? ;-P
I don't know if I'd use 'em for 'data' drives, but for boot/logging drives,
the seem to do OK - I even have an IBM drive turned external firewire at
home, and it performs *almost* as well as my internal IDE.
[[ I built it mainly as "near-offline" storage, but heck -- it's quick
enough I use it for a lot of my MPEG transcoding, instead of just storing
shows as planned. ]]
-- Oh, and you have my permission as well to use my donated funds as you
see fit for the server.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | JC: "Like those people in Celeronville!"
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Me: "Don't you mean Silicon Valley???"
zmerch_at_30below.com | JC: "Yea, that's the place!"
| JC == Jeremy Christian
Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 12:16:09 BST