Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!unhd.unh.edu!IceCube!tjb From: tjb@unhd.unh.edu!IceCube (Thomas J. Baker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Help: New 3.5" Drives Summary: 2 half heights drives in a full height bay??? Message-ID: <1991Feb3.021235.2217@unhd.unh.edu!IceCube> Date: 3 Feb 91 02:12:35 GMT References: <1991Jan31.191634.3745@unhd.unh.edu> Organization: University of New Hampshire Lines: 40 In article <1991Jan31.191634.3745@unhd.unh.edu> tjb@unhd.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes: > >I called Alliance Peripheral Systems about I drive I saw announced in MacWeek >a couple of months back. It is the Maxtor LXT-535, a 535Mb half-height 3 1/2 >inch drive with an access time of 12 to 13 milliseconds. According to the >article, it has an asyncronous data transfer rate of 3 MB/second and a >syncronous rate of 5 MB/second. Maxtor is also making the LXT-437, a 437Mb >drive with similiar stats. OEM prices are $1450 for the LXT-535 and $1250 >for the LXT-437. > While browsing through WhAT's NeXT, the Boston Computer Society's NeXT newsletter, I came across an article stating that two half height drives would not fit in one full height bay. I had planned on getting a previously described Maxtor 535 Mb drive and adding a used Quantum 210 Mb drive, for as much disk space as a Wren V, with moderate performance gains by having swap space (along with other heavily accessed read-only areas) on the second drive. But alas, I'm told it won't fit. So I tear my cube apart, borrow a friends not-in-use 20 Mb half height drive, and see for myself that it won't fit. But it does... Cutting to the chase... Has anyone else put two half height drives in the upper bay of a cube? Is there anywhere I can pick up a mounting bracket to make life easier for this setup? Can the power supply handle two hard drives and an optical? Are there heat considerations to worry about? Should I just say forget it and get a Wren V? Any insight would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance... tjb -- ____________________________________________________________________________ | INTERNET: tjb@mozz.unh.edu USPS: Thomas Baker | | USENET: uunet!unhd.unh.edu!tjb Distributed Computing | | NeXT: tjb@IceCube.unh.edu Kingsbury Hall, UNH |