23 May
2005
23 May
'05
12:27 p.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
It wasn't anywhere near that noisy, as I recall it was more of an annoying
buzzing noise. Even the 6 JBOD canisters with 18GB 10K drives sitting 4
feet away from where I sit aren't that loud. In fact they aren't as loud as
the Sparc 5/110 that I was running up until 2-3 months ago in the same rack.
It did get retired to quiet things down.
Zane
The O2 can vary, my first O2 was pretty quiet
when I first got
it, and then I put the 10,000 RPM 18GB Seagate drive in it.
That caused vibration issues. By the time I moved it to my
current R12K/270 I figured out if I stacked a small pile of
books on top of it, the vibration went away. The strange
thing is it's no longer sitting on my desk, rather it's on the
wooden shelving unit next to it, and I don't really notice the
noise.
I tried a 73GB Atlas II 10K drive in my VAXstation 4000-90
a few days ago. It all worked quite nicely and it was nice
to see OpenVMS V7.1 cope with something that must have seemed
unimaginably large at the time the code was written.
But the noise was just too much - a bit like a jet engine
three feet away from me. If yours was as bad and you've now
stopped noticing then YOU'VE GONE DEAF :-)