11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
1:42 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
My PDP-11's are using 1" High 3.5" SCSI Hard Drives, it does wonders for
the
noise level, and helps with the power consumption, but I'm honestly a bit
worried about their long term viability. At least I have a much larger
supply of SCSI drives I can use than I do MFM Hard Drives (and yes, I
have a few of those, and a couple ESDI drives).
OK, I can tell you what I went through.
First I used 2.5" IDE, but this made the board too big (was quad then)
Next revision had a 1.8" drive on them, and I could make it on a double
size board.
Never thought of using SCSI, thought it is not worth it.
Real IDE, never cared, simply because of the limited cable length.
SATA ? To expensive, at least for the next few years.
So, if I would touch it again, I would use SD-FLASH. Very easy to deal
with, easy to exchange, cheap as hell.
Cheers