installing 2.5" drive in a normal desktop is easy. you need a bracket/adapter like this: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD and you're pretty much done: for a biggish drive (60GB) toshiba 4200rpm drives are pretty good and cheap around $130. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-149-009&depa=1 but 20 and 40gb drives can be had < $100 On Fri, 14 May 2004, Per Bothner wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > I'd probably target using a lower power-disk or flash card rather than > > spinning the drive down... once the disk is spun down, latency on your > > next operation is huge... > > Yes, I should probably do this anyway. (One option I've considered is > using a laptop as the server, as these are engineered for low-power > usage - except for the power-brick ... That is a more expensive > solution, and a little less expandable.) > > This is off-topis for this list - but any recommendations for efficient > disk drives? What would be involved in installing a 2.5" laptop drive > in a desktop system? > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
