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Subject: Re: Fast hard-drive for endgames and game databases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:22:38 04/25/03

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On April 25, 2003 at 14:17:20, Tom Likens wrote:

>On April 25, 2003 at 10:31:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 25, 2003 at 01:05:19, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Finally, do you regard the Cheetah as being noisey?  I'd be installing it in a
>>>desktop machine.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
>>>Gordon
>>>
>>>I also was worried about the noise level when I bought the Cheetah.
>>>The case and processor fans do not allow me to hear the 15000 rpm hard drive.
>>>
>>>kburcham
>>
>>I've got _eight_ of them installed in my dual xeon.  They are not particularly
>>noisy compared to 10K drives.  The cooling fans in the box produce most of the
>>noise, not the disks...
>
>I just priced these things, what the heck does your dual xeon cost?  Ouch!?
>
>--tom

I paid about 500 bucks each for the 15K 36 gig drives...

The machine with one drive was just over 4,000 bucks...





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