Help! Sun Ultra 1 HD replacement?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:58 PM -0400 8/29/05, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
>I heard somewhere that even if you are only using one drive, you should
>STILL add a dummy drive in the second slot so that airflow is better.  I
>currently have two 9.1GB drives on my Ultra 2 and Solaris 10 is a pig.  I am
>planning on using one of my new drives for Solaris and still leave one of
>the 9.1GB drives as /export/home.  The other drive is going into my PC as a
>dual Linux/Solaris installation along side my IDE-based Windows
>installation...

Personally I'm of the opinion that you should always run a Sun system 
with at least two drives.  That way you can have your swap on 
something other than your main disk.

BTW, along the lines of what fits and what doesn't, in an Ultra 60 
you can put 2 1.6" drives with plenty of room.  In a Sun 711 
enclosure you can put either size in, but you can't put as many disks 
in if you're using 1.6" high drives (they take this all into account 
with how the SCA connectors are in the enclosure).

Personally most of my disks are in JBOD canisters that will take 1.6" 
high speed disks and keep them nice and cool.  Though I did have one 
start to overheat a couple weeks ago when it was 92F+ in here (it was 
at that point I realized they had a temp warning).

			Zane


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