Well ... my v7 unix box ran on a pair of 8" Fujitsu M2312K drives (84 MB each) after getting it started on an SA-1004 (I think it was called -- a 10 MB 8" drive which had a control bus like the 8" floppies, plus radial data bus.
Those drives certainly added heat to the living room -- as well as noise. :-)
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Yep! But people are now seeing them again -- or at least their work.
It well could have been, since I was trying to do it on my own. but zfs was a lot easier for me to get up to speed in.
O.K.
If threatened with it, I would. :-)
That somehow fails to surprise me. :-)
Yep -- you can. I must admit to being amazed at how fast a five drive raidz2 is compared to a single drive on the Ultra 68-pin bus.
I know that you have to first get the system to unmount it, then convince it to let go of the WWN and accept the WWN of the replacement drive. But at least I *can* do it while keeping the system running, assuming that it is not supporting a critical filesystem. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.