[Gllug] SCSI Hard Drives

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jackson, Harry wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I have been offered the following two hard drives for £70 each.
>
>
>Fijitsu MAN3184MP    68PIN

Fujitsu make good drives.

>
>Seagate ST318305LC   80PIN
>
>On doing a bit of a hunt around I cannot find much on the Seagate but plenty
>on the Fujitsu. I have checked with the supplier (not seagate) and the model
>numbers are correct. I am probably going to go with a couple of Fujitsu's
>but was wondering if anyone had any experience with them. I also find it a
>bit odd that the seagate LC uses 80 pins rather than 68 and I cannot be
>arsed looking for adapters. The guy said that they had been produced for
>Dell?????.

Just different labelling. The actual drive is completely generic.

>
>I also noticed that on the technical pages the equivalent seagates had 4
>physical heads and two disks whereas the Fujitsu had 2 heads and one disk.
>How does this affect the disk??

Lower number of platters means less head. Good for a 10000 RPM drive.

>
>Regards;
>Harry Jackson.
>
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