On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > On 11/02/2015 08:54 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > >> In case anyone is looking for the 'caddies' it looks like they're >> mostly HP/Compaq, including several dummies; I scrapped more IBM >> servers than HP, but to my surprise I only found two IBM units. > > The nice thing about SCA drives is that adapters for narrow- or wide-SCSI > are/used to be available. I've run SCA drives with old Power Macintoshes, > for example. > > I don't know if it's still true, but high-performance SCA drives do tend to > run pretty hot. > > --Chuck
I have one or two of those adapters somewhere. Any SCA drives I've used, have been quite hot, which is why I run them in external enclosures intended for them. It's rare to find ones that run at less than 7200rpm, most are 10k or 15k. Zane
