[ale] Seagate 15k FC drives

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Thu Nov 5 23:26:20 EST 2015


A sabot and a compressed air cannon...why go 2000 feet when you can go
6000 feet. :)

On 2015-11-05 20:12, Jim Kinney wrote:
> First we build a trebuchet...
> On Nov 5, 2015 7:54 PM, "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I would say that would be a probable no.
>> You would need a hardware adapter that I would hazard cost a lot more than
>> most computers you'd have around a house or small office.
>> These probably would only be useful to someone as spares or to expand
>> existing, probably borderline obsolete FC storage.
>> I like Kinney's idea, though you'd need a pretty heft launcher to get any
>> distance.
>> -jt
>>
>>
>>>>> Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> 11/5/2015 9:25 PM >>>
>> Can they be used in reg. computers? Sorry I haven't worked much with
>> FC Drives. If they can, I like a few as I can work on setting up maybe
>> iSCSI server to pay with, I don't have any drives at the moment to set
>> up.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:09 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
>>> Once bought a used HD at the show in Marietta (back when they had a
>> computer
>>> show...) that came from a bank in Alabama. No personnel info but there
>> was
>>> an intersting memo on what to do in case of a robbery. Sorry did not
>> save a
>>> copy! Pretty sure that is the same drive still in use in my firewall.
>>>
>>> William
>>>
>>> On Thursday 05 November 2015, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> I bought old gear off ebay and found user account data- name, address,
>>>> credit cards, etc., from a defunct ISP. I ran dban instantly.
>>> _______________________________________________



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