[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 28 Jan, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 01:35 +0000, Andy Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> > >  
> > >
> > They won't fall over, not with all the gyroscopic effect from the 
> > spinning platters :) 
> Depends which way you mount the disks (*)
> 
> > On an interesting note, the old very large hard 
> > drive units used to walk across the "room" of Navy ships whenever the 
> > ship would change course.
> Showing my age, I remember when 4 gigabytes of disk was delivered in a
> large lorry, and needed a delivery crew to out them in place.
> 
> (*) FLywheel powered buses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
> which I still think would be a marvellous idea in London.
> Not sure how long it takes to spin the gyro up, but all it would need
> would be an electricity hookup at either end of the route.
> And of course have to pay attention to the orientation of the gyro,
> or you have to limit the bus to runs from one end of Oxford Street to
> the other.
> 
   Or two opposing flywheels. Of course, most of the time the socket at
either end of the route just moves the pollution to somebody else.

-- 
Chris Bell

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