Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Dan Williams wrote:

I've got a full height drive in my Ultra 2. You can't put two in
though. Are there different chassis ?

Dan

uh, might you have an Ultra 1? the drive slots stack in the U1 and
you can fit the half-high drive in the lower position (even still put
a 1" drive in the top slot as well though it doesn't leave much room
between the drives for ventilation).

in the U2, the drives sit side-by-side and the metal openings in the
chassis limit you to 1" drives (the cdrom and floppy go above the
drive and there is a metal sheld part of the chassis that would require
some major cutting away to fit half-high drives, but one willing to
chop away could make half-high drives fit and not have the cdrom/floppy
bracket in place).
-ron

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Kevin Foote wrote:
I know there was a discussion on largest disk etc for a sun U# a while back
So if some one would sum it up quickly and let me know if this disk will fit
in my u2
I'd appreciate it.

I cant even recall if a 1.6 will fit right now and the box is at a colo
so i cant check.
I'll keep searching for a doc on the net though

seagate ST173404LCV 1.6" HIGH (FULL HEIGHT)

thanks

Unfortunately, this disk will not fit in an Ultra 2. I had to ask myself
this question recently and both from RTFM and looking at my Ultra 2 a
1.6" disk physically will not fit in either slot. I wish it weren't so,
as the disk you mention is listed on Prcewatch from several vendors
*very* cheap (about $35 IIRC), and that disk has a 16MB cache as well.

What it all boils down to is that in Seagate's numbering scheme,
ST1=1.6" drive, and ST3=1" drive. Both on ebay and from resellers, the
1" drives go for about twice as much in $/GB.

As I said, needed more disk for my U2, so I ended up buying a Seagate
ST336706LC (1" 36GB 80-pin SCA) off ebay for $34/shipped with a spud
bracket.

At some point I'd like to pick up a 6-slot 711 and populate it with some
of those cheap 1.6" drives. That would make a really nice Solaris
10/zfs/raidz setup.

HTH,
- Mike

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Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:10:03 -0400, Kevin Foote <kevin.foote (AT) gmail (DOT) com
wrote:

I know there was a discussion on largest disk etc for a sun U# a while
back
So if some one would sum it up quickly and let me know if this disk will
fit
in my u2
I'd appreciate it.

I cant even recall if a 1.6 will fit right now and the box is at a colo
so i cant check.
I'll keep searching for a doc on the net though

seagate ST173404LCV 1.6" HIGH (FULL HEIGHT)

thanks

I was the one that started the "largest disk for a U60" thread. :-)

I actually bought two ST173404LCV's for a U2 back in April, but then when
I took them out of the box, I knew that they would definitely not fit, so
I returned them without opening the static bags. After the return, I
stumbled upon a Craigslist entry for a group of Ultra 60's, and I picked
up one. Its drive cage could easily take two 1.6" hard drives. D'oh!

However, I wanted the drives for this system to not die on me early, so I
ended up going the whole 9 yards and getting a pair of new,
5-year-warranty ST373207LC drives for $185 each. Maybe it was overkill,
but then I can still RMA them if one of them goes bad. I don't know how
loud or hot the ST173404LCV's would have been, but the ST373207LC's are
rather quiet and don't get that warm.

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29/06/06, Ron Wickersham <rjw (AT) alembic (DOT) comwrote:
uh, might you have an Ultra 1? the drive slots stack in the U1 and
you can fit the half-high drive in the lower position (even still put
a 1" drive in the top slot as well though it doesn't leave much room
between the drives for ventilation).

and

30/06/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 (AT) verizon (DOT) netwrote:
Did you remove the CD-RM and put the drive in a 5 1/4" bay adapter?

You are both right I was thinking of the Ultra 1 when I was describing
where the drives sit. But the Ultra-2 I have seems to have the drive
where the cdrom should go. This is how the machine came when I got it.

Dan

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