[TriLUG] OT: Quiet SCSI drive

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil OlsonE at aosa.army.mil
Fri Aug 4 15:02:34 EDT 2006


Not sure on that one. Probably DMESG or LSPCI? Looks like they might
be...

I'd probably look for some new drives. 

http://www.anysystem.com/hard-drives-scsi.html

Has what seems like some good deals on SUN hdds. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Owen Berry
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:53 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Quiet SCSI drive

Very sure. I can run the machine off a Gentoo livecd with no drives in
and it sounds great. I considered just running it off a livecd for a
while, except that to do anything useful I would need to roll my own.

These are 2GB Seagate Barracuda's, probably from 1998. How do I find the
specs, and/or step them down? Preferrably without having to put them
back in? :-)

Owen

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:42:18PM -0400, Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> Are you sure it is the drives making all the noise?
> If so, stepping down to 10k RPM drives may help, though if they are 
> already 10k drives you are pretty much stuck.
> 
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Owen Berry wrote:
> 
> >I have a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 sitting under my desk, as a free gift

> >from my company due to lack of use. Nothing great, but it has 2 
> >network cards, dual processor, and 1G memory. Only problem is that it

> >has 2 SCSI drives that are so noisy that people from across the 
> >passage came to see what was going on the first time I started it up.
> >
> >Is it possible to get a relatively quiet SCSI drive that wouldn't be 
> >a noise polluter sitting under my desk? And if so, what should I be 
> >looking for? I don't need anything large ... just enough to get a 
> >basic Linux or BSD server running.
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