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crozewski@gmail.com writes:

>When I began to work for my university a few months back I picked up a
>sparcstation 5 to familiarize with the hardware and build quality of a
>classic Sun. Since then I've been more then impressed even though the
>machine is quite dated now. Currently I have my main machine forward
>it's X display to it and I run simple web browsing and email clients.
>Unfortunatly the hard disk is rather small (500mb) and I am 30mb away
>from capacity. What hard disk options do I have? I'm aware that the
>interface is SCSI and that the disks come at a high premium than ATA.
>Are there any specific manufactures that are recomended? Also, is there
>a limit to how large of a disk I can install? For reference the Sun is
>running Debian Woody with 224mb of RAM.

Any 80-pin 1" high SCSI drive should be fine. Keep in mind the heating
issues if you plan to run two drives in the machine, but otherwise grab
yourself a 9 or 18 GB 1" high 80-pin (ie. SCA) SCSI drive and you should get
a big leap in disk performance as well as having drastically more storage
space to use.

You can find 80 pin drives all over the place - Ebay's the best source to
get an idea on availability and pricing. If you can get new drives grab
them. Used drives fall of warehouse shelves but they're not always a good
bet unless you can test them thoroughly to make sure they'll be ok.

Regards,

Craig.
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