Re: Max HD in Sun Ultra 2 Workstation?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:22:57 -0500

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:30:23 +0000, Michael Laajanen wrote:

> http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=ba88f6d7cf664
718376049b291346068&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&
epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpath=
/en_us/Products/SCSI%20Hard%20Drives/Atlas%2010K%20Family/Atlas%2010K%20V

Bookmarked. Thank you.

> Since I am in Sweden, shipping is so expensive so it is not worth to buy
> small things like a motherboard, I should go for a complete machine
> when need for better performance is a issue or when it's time to move
> up to S10 in next year or so.

Yeah, that overseas shipping is a real problem and not only for reason of
cost but because sellers just will not bother to discover the customs
regulations. In fact, I recently discovered that it is illegal to ship
chess sets from USA to Afghanistan.

> Yes, that is about the same speed I get on the Swift using a old 18GB
> 7200RPM Fujitsu, I have about half the speed on the internal new 73GB
> Maxtor.

A 7200RPM IDE drive will deliver 35-40MB/sec so the limit seems to be in
the controller. I prefer the 10k drives because generally they dissipate
less heat than the older 7200rpm models and have a bit faster access time.

> Brrr for ST506 that was even crappier than IDE if possible, I used SASI
> and later SCSI adapters (5MB/s and getting 6-700KB/s in real speed) at
> that time as a HW Engineer connected to 5-10MB ST-506 drives and tapes
> when working as HW designer in ATC systems in the 80's :)

For small computers that was just about state of the art back then. First
hard drive I set up was the first (other than IBM's) 8 in. Winchester with
a linear voice coil and rated at 8MB. Took a few months to design and
debug the hardware interface to S100 bus and write a BIOS for CP/M. That
was in early 1979.

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