[Info-vax] Buying disk for a DS10

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/24/2011 11:26 AM, tadamsmar wrote:
> Our database machine is running out of space.
>
> I want to buy new disks for a DS10, not refurbs.
>
> NEWEGG lists some Ultra320 80 pin drives.  Will those work?
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> The DS10 came drives specified as Ultra3 (U160) SCSI on the label.
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> I wonder if I can get new drives with the right interface.
>
> These are non-shadowed drives, so I want reliable drives.

I'm not sure that there IS such a thing as a "reliable drive"!  One of 
the primary reasons why we make disk backups is that disks are NOT 
reliable.  The other reason for backups is human stupidity; somebody 
deleted or overwrote a file that he/she should not have!

Your disk drive may be DOA, it may arrive in working condition and fail 
three days later.  It *might* last four or five years.  A "rule of 
thumb" is that if a device survives the first 30-90 days it will 
probably survive for the next three to five years.  This assumes that
the temperature in the computer room stays within specifications and 
that the AC power remains within specifications, etc.