[Suns-at-Home] cooling disks on the sparcstation 20

[Mike Loewen]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Craig Dewick wrote:

> The two drive bays in the SS20 are very bad for cooling, and if you run with 
> two SM71 processors (the max config Sun actually recommends) things can get 
> quite hot. If you try running two SM81's (which will work, providing the OBP 
> is a high enough version) that exceeds Sun's recommended ceilings for 
> temperature rise inside the enclosure and with two drives fitted 
> (particularly older ones which run hotter), there's very little forced 
> airflow to keep the ambient temp inside the enclosure, esp. around the drive 
> bays, down to a safe level.

    How about two SM151s and a single Seagate 9GB ST39102LC?  I haven't run 
the it much since the upgrade, so I don't know how hot it will get.


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