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24/7 rated 2.5" laptop hard disk
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| Dear friends,
right now, i am having to build a small system that shall provide
firewall service for a local network. This computer is a specialized
box that support 2.5" laptop hard disks. Since, it will be running
nonstop, i am in need to buy a 2.5" 44 pin IDE ATA 100 hard disk for
such task. But i have a hard requirement: this disk must be rated 24/7
operation.
I have heard of two device: HITACHI E7K100 and E5K100. Other
brands/models are welcomed.
The prime question: where can i find a honest/reliable reseller that
deliver worlwide.
Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
Best regards.
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| Bill Todd 2006-08-08, 7:13 pm |
| GRios wrote:
> Dear friends,
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> right now, i am having to build a small system that shall provide
> firewall service for a local network. This computer is a specialized
> box that support 2.5" laptop hard disks. Since, it will be running
> nonstop, i am in need to buy a 2.5" 44 pin IDE ATA 100 hard disk for
> such task. But i have a hard requirement: this disk must be rated 24/7
> operation.
Why? Just how much do you expect firewall service to be exercising it?
- bill
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| Paul Rubin 2006-08-08, 7:13 pm |
| "GRios" <rios.gustavo@gmail.com> writes:
> I have heard of two device: HITACHI E7K100 and E5K100. Other
> brands/models are welcomed.
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> The prime question: where can i find a honest/reliable reseller that
> deliver worlwide.
The "E" there stands for enterprise. I've had good luck buying this
stuff in the US from newegg.com and zipzoomfly.com, but I don't know
if either one ships internationally. You could also try froogle.com
to find other suppliers.
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| jmcgill 2006-08-11, 7:14 pm |
| Bill Todd wrote:
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> Why?
When it fails, it is often very desirable to be able to say the due
diligence was done, and a properly specified device was chosen.
The alternative is to possibly face the pleasure of answering the
question from an angry client (or the angry client's lawyer), "Why did
you cut corners?"
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| jmcgill 2006-08-11, 7:14 pm |
| GRios wrote:
> Dear friends,
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> right now, i am having to build a small system that shall provide
> firewall service for a local network. This computer is a specialized
> box that support 2.5" laptop hard disks.
Aren't we already past this whole "moving parts" era for such applications?
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| Bill Todd 2006-08-11, 7:14 pm |
| jmcgill wrote:
> Bill Todd wrote:
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> When it fails, it is often very desirable to be able to say the due
> diligence was done, and a properly specified device was chosen.
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> The alternative is to possibly face the pleasure of answering the
> question from an angry client (or the angry client's lawyer), "Why did
> you cut corners?"
The original poster used a term which is not part of any disk
specification with which I'm familiar, so I took the liberty of
interpreting it to mean continuous (seeking) duty cycle of the form
commonly specified for enterprise-class FC/SCSI disks but for very few
desktop (e.g., most SATA) disks.
Since it was not at all clear that the application for which the disk
was intended required anything like that level of usage, I questioned
the need - without in any way suggesting that the disk eventually
selected should be used beyond what it was specced to support.
Clearer now?
- bill
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| jmcgill 2006-08-12, 1:13 am |
| Bill Todd wrote:
> Clearer now?
Yes. So are we really not past the whole "moving parts" thing in this
type of application?
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| Scott Howard 2006-08-13, 1:13 am |
| Bill Todd <billtodd@metrocast.net> wrote:
> The original poster used a term which is not part of any disk
> specification with which I'm familiar, so I took the liberty of
"24x7" is a term used by some manufacturers to refer to (normally)
2.5" drives that are intended to be use in servers that run 24x7. ie,
they are designed with things like Blade servers in mind rather than
notebooks. I'm not sure that it's an official term as such, but is is
commonly used for certain manufactuters/disks.
The drives he mentioned (eg, the Hitachi E7K100) is one of the ones which
is often tagged with this term.
Scott
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