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Article #7770Re: 207 MB Drives in SS1(+)'s
From: Mark Cappel
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 13:03
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 13:03
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In article <2731@brchh104.bnr.ca> you write: >In <2632@brchh104.bnr.ca>, rhoward@msd.gatech.edu writes: >>[[Ed's Note: Two disks internally is the max, and I think 207Mbyte is the >>largest Sun sells for internal expansion - of course, you can always add >>external SCSI drives (669 Mbyte from Sun) to get lots of space. -bdg]] > >One thing I've never grasped .. how Sun can charge $5000 for those, when >you can get multiple *gigabytes* for that much money from third-party >vendors. Please forgive if I missed this point in an earlier portion of the discussion, but Sun does not support the use of > 104 Mb disks in SS1 and SS1+'s. Apparently, the larger disks generate more heat than the early pizza boxes can handle. Before you do add such a big disk to the internals of a SS1*, you may want to look at the guts of a SS2 to see how Sun improved the cooling capacity of the pizza box design. Mark Cappel 80 Elm St. Senior Editor Peterborough, NH 03458 SunWorld (nee SunTech Journal) voice (603) 924-0100 mark@east.sunworld.com fax (603) 924-8779
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: mark@east.sunworld.com (Mark Cappel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 207 MB Drives in SS1(+)'s Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <2841@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 10 May 91 13:03:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Thu, 2 May 91 09:49:38 EDT X-Refs: Original: v10n90, Replies: v10n98 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 98, message 12 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu