Well it took a long time to get it working. I could replace that noisy RAID array with an SD card. But then what would I do with that RAID array?
That case was an XT clone, which clumsily houses Flyer drives. I never get round to replacing it with something better. It's still big, clunky, clumsy, and annoying, and in use, albeit not as neatly as shown there.
To me, it doesn't matter at all that it is clunky, clumsy, noisy, could be replaced with a single SD card, etc. The fact that it's complete and in working order makes it simply awesome. As such, it's a true museum piece that should be preserved for the future generations.
I mean the XT clone though. It's going to get replaced one of these days but I've been saying that for decades. The difference now is that it might be worth giving to someone else in stead of "recycling" it. The rest of it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
It's actually dangerous for the drives installed as they are mounted in foam in stead of being screwed in place. One of these days...
04-01-2021, 09:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2021, 09:28 PM by dsimic.)
Yeah, HDDs are designed to be rigidly mounted. The mass of the entire computer or the enclosure needs to fight the inertia caused by the movement of the drive heads. That's why canceling the HDD vibrations in modern PC cases, using rubber mounts, is actually a bad thing for the drives.