[Soekris] spam: suitable harddisk from Fujitsu?

[Albert Dengg]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:50:47PM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote:
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> It would be certainly great a Soekris computer with Ultra320 drives!  ;-)
> Can it be an advantage for a machine whose CPU has not been designed
> with I/O performance as a primary goal?  (in any case, 2.5" Ultra320
> drives are too expensive these days...)
while scsi/fc might be better in terms of cpu load with the throughput i
doubt it would make sense, at least with 4801 that can't fully handle
the data from my 4k2 hitachi ata drive, the upcoming 7501 might be
another issue possibly.

> On an unrelated matter... will the net5501 come with interfaces for both
> UltraDMA-100 and Serial ATA drives?  In this case, will it ibe possible
> install two drives concurrently?
http://soekris.com/net5501.htm

-> yes both sata and pata...
the 2 drive question will be more one of case and/or power supply,
though you can try to construct something for both issues
(the 2.5" drive do only require a 5V, that can be routed dircetly with a
dc-dc converter from the external powersupply in the case that the
internal converters can't handle it)

yours
albert

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Albert Dengg <a_d at gmx.at>