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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18410 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:47 comp.os.linux.hardware:2141 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5367 comp.os.os2.misc:125934 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.pfc.forestry.ca!bcsystems!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!psinntp!psinntp!internet!sbi.sbi.com!taltos.sbi.com!jag-ws1!jag Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,io.general,io.computers Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components Message-ID: <3hcd14$qfj@taltos.sbi.com> From: jag@jag-ws1.sbi.com (Joe Gardina) Date: 9 Feb 1995 06:34:12 GMT References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gs889$18@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3gt8b6$f6a@dagny.galt.com> <3gth68$6au@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Organization: Salomon Brothers, Inc. NNTP-Posting-Host: jag-ws1.sbi.com Lines: 67 In article <3gth68$6au@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> wrote: >alex wetmore (alex@phred.org) wrote: > >: A company that I worked at (which will go unnamed, but it was big and >: generally has tons of influence, I'm just not sure how public this ever >: was) had tons of Barracudas and Hawks around and returned all of them >: to Seagate because of overheating problems that they were having. This >: was last summer, after the drives had been out for a couple of years. > >: Was enough to make me decide to get the Micropolis 4110S instead of a >: Seagate Hawk at least. > > Having shopped around for a good hard drive for group order, >I've found out that Micropolis no longer manufactures the drives under >2 Gigs. This is a pity, really, as I've heard that those are >*extremely* good drives and the 4110S model had been selling very well. This thread came up a while ago on comp.periphs.scsi. Seagate Barracuda disks apparently had a requirement for special cooling beyond what you normally find inside of a standard enclosure. This is why they used a non-standard mounting configuration, so the story goes. Any hardware engineer building a system using the Barracuda would presumably know this and would design accordingly. But since there's an active market of disks sans enclosures many of the them found their way into inadequatly cooled environments. Current Barracudas don't require special cooling but the damage has been done. Regarding the Micropolis offerings, I hope Mr. Burton <tomb@earthlink.net> won't mind my reposting this useful information he posted on comp.periphs.scsi. I personally have the 4221 in my Linux box and am quite pleased with it. The 2 Gig disks are not that expensive and having the extra space is handy. --- Begin Repost [dated 01 Dec 1994 ] --- Since there has been a fair amount of discussion as to what drives Micropolis is or is not currently producing, I thought I'd set the record straight. (First, a little background.) Micropolis is always at the high end of the performance and capacity range. The 1 Gigabyte SCSI drive has now become a "commodity" item. Prices have dropped to the point where Micropolis cannot profitably make and sell them. Thus, Micropolis has ceased production of the 1 Gigabyte, 3 1/2-inch, 1-inch high Model 4110 drive (though there are quantities still available at various distributors and/or resellers). Micropolis is in volume production of the following drives: 1. Model 4221 - 3 1/2-inch, 1-inch high, 2.1 Gigabyte formatted capacity, 7200 rpm, 8.9 msec average seek time. 2. Model 3243 - 3 1/2-inch, 1.625-inch high, 4.29 Gigabyte formatted capacity, 7200 rpm, 8.9 msec average seek time. 3. Model 1991 - 5.25-inch, "full-height," 9.09 Gigabyte formatted capacity, 5400 rpm, 12 msec average seek time. I'll be glad to answer any questions or provide additional information. Tom Burton Publications Manager, Micropolis Corporation --- End Repost --- jag --- jag@mhap.sbi.com