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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:00

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Peter Koch <koch@pz.pirmasens.de> writes:

>> Having only one drive in was hot but now that I have 2 7200rpm drives
>> stacked on top of each other I could literally fry an egg on them!!

>I removed the orig. 500 MB hard disks from my SS5 when i
>upgaded the memory and added two external 4 GB Baracudas.
>Boy, these 500 MB disks were hot! And cannot even store
>a complete /usr partition...

>Heat is the dead of all computers. Everything that reduces
>the temperature helps. 

Use IBM SCSI drives. They run quiet and very cool. Much cooler than
Seagates, Quantums, and Fujitsus on average.

Unless I have something suitable on-hand, I use IBM drive exclusively now
when I'm sourcing new drives for clients or for machines I'm building.

Regards,

Craig.
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From: cd@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
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Date: 2000/03/12
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