16 Nov
1997
16 Nov
'97
7:02 a.m.
Is that slapping belt driven by brushed massive motor
and a dual head
racks on opposed fashion like lycoming? Well, we had one fail,
spindle bearings started to groan and lose speed. :) and you can see
those rust colored platters through that semi-smoked plastic
housings. The platter axle is horizontal and in front/back
direction in relation to user when opening or closing that banging
sheetmetal blue doors. I think it was between 10 or 14
thick platters.
I am not sure much about the internals, as most I have seen have had them
mangled by the tines of forklifts.
What exactly how much MB or MW that was? :)
I think the 3380 boxes could contain many drives (non-RAID, probably), and
those drives could be of various sizes. When I worked a short summer job
fetching tapes for everyone's favorite macaroni-and-cheese maker's 3081, I
think the 3380s were each in the few gigabyte catagory.
Oh, you would not want to drop one of these drives...
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net