OT: Well anything for a little traffic

[Bill Vermillion]

As GCC Consulting was scratching "For a good prime call 
391581 * 2^216193 -1" on the wall, he suddenly said:

>  
> :-)

[deletia - wjv]

> > Then today, it just plain powered down.  We restarted it, it 
> > went about 5-10min, and it died again.  Then it wouldn't fire 
> > up at all--the power light would just flash and it wouldn't 
> > do anything.   ...

> > Got a new power supply today...480-watt with dual UV LED 
> > fans.  The thing runs quieter, about 20F cooler from the feel 
> > of both the case and the area in back of the case, and it's 
> > been chugging away for about 4.5 hours now. 

...

> With your larger power supply, you might want to consider one
> of those drive bay fans. That's if you have the available
> space. I've seen some with thermometers to keep track on inside
> temperatures.

> I did this for one on my clients when we I installed a pair of
> cheetah drives.

Let me recommend another solution for drives like the Cheetah.

It is a drive heat sink.  It is machine aluminum, and will work
with 1" [not 1/2 ht] 3.5 hard drives.  It's a snug fit, and on the
front of the devie are three small fans that are blowing through
the vents on the sink.

Memory says they were in the $20+ range.  This system had at least
3 cheetahs, 2 Xeons, 1MB on the SCSI cache controller, etc.

There were six SCSI devices - and to make it all work we
used the silver connector teflon coated cables.  Those cables
are in the $150 range.

Just the HW upgrade alone was about $13K.  But the system ran
wonderfully well.   All custom built.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com