Next question on disks - has anybody had any bad experiences with generic drives rather than HP specific units? I am being quoted A$2k for genuine HP 36gb, down to A$400 for generics....I don't recall any reports of problems.

thanks,
jp

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hornsby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:13 AM
To: John Pitman
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] external disk drives on a 969

John Pitman wrote:
> We have a 'spare'  969 400 system with 2 x 9gb drives in it, with 7.5 installed. This much space is not enough for it to act as a fallback system for our N series (1x 18gb, 1 x 36gb).
> Is there any real reason I cant add an external 36gb drive on the FW Diff i/f to make this system a viable DR option? In theory its 50% faster than the N series (220-100, same RAM size), with a 100bt nic fitted.
>
>
No need to go external.Remove the cd drive and replace it with one of
the 9gb drives. Adapters from fw to se are ~$10.00us.
This will free up a slot for a larger internal disk.The other way to go
would be to simply replace one of the 9gb discs with a 72.
Mike

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