On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:32:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 2) Should I be worried about the heat of a 7200 RPM drive ? > > This box has nothing more than the power supply fan, and > > the CPU fan to keep things cool. Also, the HD cage of this > > case is really tight --- there is very little space for air > > to circulate between the drives, and there are already two > > drives in the cage. Actually, there is really only space > > for two HD in the cage. The new one will being hanging upside > > down from the bottom of the mounting cage. > > Stick with 5400RPM disks for the reasons you mentioned. Besides, a 7200 rpm drive is only a big win when you have udma enabled, and chances are good your old IDE controller doesn't do udma. I have a 13g ide drive in an old p90 with award bios; works fine if a bit slow (but slow doesn't matter in this application). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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