[plug] [OT] IBM Hotswap SCSI HDDs

[Ryan]

*winds back the clock*

U160 I have, got a lot of them (4.3GB):

http://slowest.net/photos/IBM%20PC%20Server%20330/Picture_0119.jpg

... and a stack of spares.  All good. Nothing bad to report, no
failures.  That said though, the standard warning that goes along with
all more recent IBM hard drives still applies I'd say .. then again it
is hotswap and you WILL use RAID, so I guess it doesn't really matter if
they die every 5 minutes :P

That box is called 'wind-tunnel' due to the ridiculous amount of fanage
it has, 3 huge ones next to the hotswap cage ... so the drives are
pretty well looked after for heat, don't know about vibration with those
fans though ;)

Ryan

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:20, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry for being a bit off-topic here.  I'm wondering from people who 
> have had direct experience with IBM hot swap U320 SCSI hard disks (or 
> similar) whether they have had any failure or success with them?
> 
> Relevance to Linux?  Well... it will of course be running Linux... :)