[Soekris] spam: suitable harddisk from Fujitsu?

[Tobias Weingartner]

On Sunday, March 18, "Gabe E. Nydick" wrote:
> 
> Sun uses 2.5" 10k rpm SAS drives in servers now, as well.  But I
> don't think I've seen a high perf IDE drive which is what we'd need.
> I don't think there's a SCSI or SAS controller that'd fit in the
> soekris, is there?

This is like putting 355/45ZR18 tires on a 1990 honda civic.  Yes, you
may be able to make it fit, you may even be able to put/get data from
it, but I doubt you'll do more than a simple el-cheapo 120GB 5.4K rpm
2.5" disk will do.

The question always comes to, what do you want to do with the data?  As
far as I can see, even the 5501 has only 100Mb ethernet.  So even if you
could gang all four together, or somehow shoehorn both a sata/scsi/sas
controller *and* a GbE card onto the board... your bottlenecks likely
still would not dictate such an expensive SAS disk.

--Toby.