207 MB Drives in SS1(+)'s

[Mark Cappel]

In article <2731 at brchh104.bnr.ca> you write:
>In <2632 at brchh104.bnr.ca>, rhoward at msd.gatech.edu writes:
>>[[Ed's Note: Two disks internally is the max, and I think 207Mbyte is the
>>largest Sun sells for internal expansion - of course, you can always add
>>external SCSI drives (669 Mbyte from Sun) to get lots of space. -bdg]]
>
>One thing I've never grasped .. how Sun can charge $5000 for those, when
>you can get multiple *gigabytes* for that much money from third-party
>vendors.

Please forgive if I missed this point in an earlier portion of the
discussion, but Sun does not support the use of > 104 Mb disks in SS1 and
SS1+'s.  Apparently, the larger disks generate more heat than the early
pizza boxes can handle. Before you do add such a big disk to the internals
of a SS1*, you may want to look at the guts of a SS2 to see how Sun
improved the cooling capacity of the pizza box design.

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