15 Jul
1997
15 Jul
'97
2:58 p.m.
At 09:34 AM 7/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
First off why bother withg the st225s? They are slow
(st251s are
faster!) and their reliability is at best ok. FYI: st225s live far
I would if I had a ST-251, but I got 4 ST-225's, and 2 of them are in use,
and the other 2 are spares.
they are slow, but they do work nicely. I also like the sound of old
hardware, the new drives you can hardly hear them run, with these, you can
hear them a mile away! :)
The cooling fan on this machine is as loud as the hard disks, and moves lots
of warm air..
longer if they are cooled. If the fan isn't noisy
it isn't moving enough
air past them, seriously! Also if they are in the smae box as all the
other hardware they raise the other components temperature lowering their
it is in an XT case, which is huge, and has one slot free for air to move..
and my room is not air condidtioned, but the house is, but the cold never
travels in here! <G>
life. Heat is not your friend, this is why computer
rooms are air
conditioned an usuialy under 70 degrees F.
Allison