Hard drive bling

[Yousuf Khan]

A transparent hard disk body?

"Western Digital: Clearly Innovative"
http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

 

[Rita Ä Berkowitz]

A transparent hard disk body?

"Western Digital: Clearly Innovative"

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

Thanks!!!! You guys just keep proving my point that SATA drives are only
useful in novelty systems that comprise of gaming, overclocking, MP3 servers
for juveniles, and "bling" for the neon light crowd. Now if WD really wants
to capitalize on this "clear drive" technology they should install a full
array of blue blinking LEDs under the clear cover. THAT WOULD BE NEAT!!!







Rita

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

A transparent hard disk body?

"Western Digital: Clearly Innovative"
http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

A bit late.
IBM DFHS Enterprise SCSI harddrives had this more than 10 years ago.

And, no Bigotowitz, they didn't have the blue LEDs.

 

[Rob Stow]

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

Thanks!!!! You guys just keep proving my point that SATA drives are only
useful in novelty systems that comprise of gaming, overclocking, MP3 servers
for juveniles, and "bling" for the neon light crowd. Now if WD really wants
to capitalize on this "clear drive" technology they should install a full
array of blue blinking LEDs under the clear cover. THAT WOULD BE NEAT!!!

I find SATA drives have negligible performance gains in just
about everything - but they are still worth it just because they
allow *much* better cable management.

Being able to do away with IDE ribbon cables - even if they are
rounded - is heaven. The longer and far more flexible SATA
cables can be routed anywhere you want them to go - you can
guarantee that once you install the drive and route the cable,
the cable will never be in the way again.

 

[Peter]

A transparent hard disk body?

"Western Digital: Clearly Innovative"

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

Why not, it is only 50$ extra

 

[chrisv]

You guys just keep proving my point

.... that "Rita" is a troll and anything "she" says should be ignored.

 

[Peter]

... that "Rita" is a troll and anything "she" says should be ignored.

Just put "her" in a blocked senders list or a killfile and be done with it.

 

[J. Clarke]

A transparent hard disk body?

"Western Digital: Clearly Innovative"

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

I've wanted one of those for classroom use for a long time. Every
manufacturer has made one once in a while but they were specials for their
sales department and not available to the general public. Nice if I can
finally go out and buy one. Wish it was cheaper though.

I did have one in my possession for a while, but it was a 14" IBM that
weighed something like 80 pounds and when I changed jobs I "donated" it to
the school where I was teaching, which most likely donated it to the
landfill shortly after.

 

[hackbox.info]

http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/01/western-digital-clearly-innovative.html

Thanks!!!! You guys just keep proving my point that SATA drives are only

one but - Raptor is a PATA drive with PATA2SATA converter

 

[Rob Stow]

one but - Raptor is a PATA drive with PATA2SATA converter

I thought I read in one of the reviews that the 150 GB Raptors
have a native SATA controller ?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I thought I read in one of the reviews that the 150 GB Raptors
have a native SATA controller ?

So the PATA to SATA convertor is integrated in the black LSI chip,
so what.

SATA is PATA with a serializer in front of it.

Somewhere along the line things have to go to parallel, even if you dump
the whole PATA idea, so why bother.
The difference with integrated SATA is that PATA transceivers can be
passed over and control lines connected directly without the extra need
for SATA to PATA conversion protocol (is it an IN or OUT command, etc.)
and no need to setup the PATA interface, to begin with.

 

[Rita Ä Berkowitz]

I thought I read in one of the reviews that the 150 GB Raptors
have a native SATA controller ?

<http://www.westerndigital.com/en/index.asp?Language=en>

<http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=189>






Rita

 

[hackbox.info]

I thought I read in one of the reviews that the 150 GB Raptors have a
native SATA controller ?

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...cles/200601/WD1500ADFD_2.html+WD1500ADFD+pata

my bad

 

[daytripper]

A bit late.
IBM DFHS Enterprise SCSI harddrives had this more than 10 years ago.

And, no Bigotowitz, they didn't have the blue LEDs.

Earlier than that. The hard drive (code name "Piccolo") used in the service
processor for the IBM 308X mainframe family used a clear case, exposing
virtually everything within. That would have been around 1982. At the time the
head actuator used on this drive was quite novel and seeing it at work was
spellbinding...

But no blue LEDs ;-)

/daytripper

 

[Rita Ä Berkowitz]

Earlier than that. The hard drive (code name "Piccolo") used in the
service processor for the IBM 308X mainframe family used a clear
case, exposing virtually everything within. That would have been
around 1982. At the time the head actuator used on this drive was
quite novel and seeing it at work was spellbinding...

They had some interesting drives back then.

The old IBM DFHS drives I remember and numbnuts is referring to are 4GB and
smaller never had a clear case. Oh, though they were labeled IBM and had
IBM firmware they were made by Seagate. Maybe it was that other
manufacturer that made them with a clear case?

But no blue LEDs ;-)

Nope! Nor did they have the abortion known as SATA back then either.







Rita

 

[Rita Ä Berkowitz]

A bit late.
IBM DFHS Enterprise SCSI harddrives had this more than 10 years ago.

And, no Bigotowitz, they didn't have the blue LEDs.

I think maybe you are mistaken as you normally are since this DFHS doesn't
have a clear cover. I dug one out of the junk box just for you.

http://www.geocities.com/ritaberk2003/eBay/DFHS.jpg







Rita

 

[Del Cecchi]

Earlier than that. The hard drive (code name "Piccolo") used in the
service
processor for the IBM 308X mainframe family used a clear case, exposing
virtually everything within. That would have been around 1982. At the
time the
head actuator used on this drive was quite novel and seeing it at work
was
spellbinding...

But no blue LEDs ;-)

/daytripper

Actually Piccolo was also used in midrange systems like system/38 and
system/36. We used to have one we used to hold the door of the
conference room open. Took it to a technology fair. I could hardly lift
it. Those things were heavy.

del cecchi

 

[Peter]

Earlier than that. The hard drive (code name "Piccolo") used in the

Actually Piccolo was also used in midrange systems like system/38 and
system/36. We used to have one we used to hold the door of the
conference room open. Took it to a technology fair. I could hardly lift
it. Those things were heavy.

del cecchi

That must be it:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3310.html

 

[Yousuf Khan]

A bit late.
IBM DFHS Enterprise SCSI harddrives had this more than 10 years ago.

Those were the big ones inside a round spindle case that you used to
drop into a mechanism somewhat like a car CD-changer right?

Yousuf Khan

 

[daytripper]

That must be it:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3310.html

Nah. This was quite a small drive - from memory, the platters were around 6
inches across. It was bolted inside to the frame about a foot off the floor
pan, and it was no biggie to heft one...

/daytripper