On Saturday 20 January 2007 00:38, Ethan Dicks wrote:
internal SCSI drive of a type I'd never seen
before. I had to google
it - an ST5660NC. I was surprised to confirm that even though it was
an SCA-connector drive, it was a whopping 545MB, and *narrow* (thus
the "NC"). I didn't know anyone made a) SCA drives below 1GB, and b)
narrow SCSI SCA drives. I think the drive bracket is probably one of
the most expensive things in the box, really.
I've seen them quite a bit in machines from Purdue, mostly in SS5's.
SS20's are expensive enough that I'm not sure why someone would use that
drive...
I think there was some recent list traffic about using
an SS20 as,
essentially, an X terminal with that optional internal frame buffer,
but since I don't have one, I'm thinking "headless server". Not as
powerful as the cheapest of "haul-it-away" commodity boxes, but
substantially more robust. At least I'd expect this box to stay up
for 6 months at a time.
I think I've got some VSIMM's laying around somewhere. Probably next to
my E4000's. :)
Pat
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