🚀 go-pugleaf

I've also got a new 2217S. My previous hard disk was a 120MB Conner IDE,
so this was.. sort of a big jump. (I toasted my old data trying to back
it up.. go figure how clever I am..) Anyways. My reactions:

Sort of noisy, like a HardCard spinning.
Fast.
Hot! (As in thermally.) Do I need a good fan or should I move it
to an external enclosure? It sort of bothers me. It is well
ventilated, though.
No problems yet, and this is after pounding the hell out of it
for maybe a week and a half.

I think now that I like the quiet cool of a low profile drive more,
but the ~15 times storage is probably worth it.

Still, I wouldn't mind trading for two low profile drives.

-Hui-Hui Hu
hdesiato@cascades.com 

In article <CsEFA2.6nq@sgb.oau.org>, Steven Bradley <steven@sgb.oau.org> wrote:
>tpark@csupomona.edu wrote:
 : > I have had two drives (out of three Micropolis drives total) fail, the 2210
 : > failed after 6 months and was replaced.  The first replacement was around a
 : > year old and it was replaced, the first Micropolis (ESDI) has not failed
 : > (frantically knocking on wood).  The point is both Micropolis SCSI drives
 : > have failed.

 : > Anyone have an opinion if this was merely bad luck, or if this could be
 : > considered normal for Micropolis?  How do they rank up in the drive makers
 : > in terms of reliability?

 : I've had some bad luck with the micropolis 2217s.  It wasn't entirely 
 : their fault.  I first one I got ran fine before it got hit by the

>	Well, let's see.  I ordered it on Monday, it arrived Tuesday afternoon.
>	I recall the price being around $1110 complete including shipping,
>	cable, external case.  Low level formatted and verified it on Tuesday
>	night.  Prepared filesystems and performed surface testing on Wednesday
>	night.  Moved my public files to their new home on Thursday night.
>	Moved my newsgroups around and doubled space to 1 gig (the whole of a
>	2210 (1050 meg) drive) on Saturday.  Took 8 hours doing so.  It's still
>	running well today.  I guess thats around 6 straight 24 hour days.  I
>	had the serial number ran at Micropolis -- was made TWO WEEKS ago.

>	So far (knock on wood) so good.