<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Jun 2023, at 1:13 am, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" class="">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">It's a good $.02. :-)</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">UPDATE: Just been informed that he may have access to an Optiplex 7010 mini-tower. I'll look it up after lunch, but I do think that one has room for 3.5" HDDs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Of passing interest, and I've not heard complaints here, and I guess the reasons are more relevant today than 20 years ago, eg Stephen saying he has 4 </div><div class="">WD-Red drives, was Seagate's "IDE more than just an interface" paper saying </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have more than 1 non enterprize disk in a box some will fail</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Logic being driveA seeks, the bump knocks driveB off track. DriveB seeks back, the bump knocking driveA off track ...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I guess 2 1/2 drives bump less. There was also comment (somewhere in the thread) about 2 1/2s being slow. Most I've seen are 7200 rpm cica 5000 rpm for 3 1/2s</div><div class="">James</div></body></html>