A Fujitsu 18GB 68 pin 10,000RPM SCSI drive! Anyone know how loud it would be?

After my warnings about ozone I now wish I had some...

Just picked this up:

I needed something that would run Win98SE, but was new enough to allow USB boot. So was very happy to find this nearby for almost nothing:
- Compaq TR100 uATX i815E rev b. motherboard
- Tualeron 1400 CPU
- 1x 128MB PC133 unbuffered
- 1x 128MB PC100 ECC
- Holtek AM64E1-32MB TNT2-M64 AGP 4x (with a heatsink that obviously once held a fan but doesn't now)
- generic (Dipa Productions?) Realtek RTL8139D 10/100Mb PCI NIC
- Quantum LC10A011 10GB PATA HDD
- Promedia SPS-250-15XE ATX PSU

...and all of that smothered in the worst cigarette stench I have smelt in years. The PSU is crap and so covered in it I've chucked it in the bin straight away. As for the rest, time to figure out the best way to clean off the smell. Tempted to use meths for the PCBs. But despite smell and iffy condition of the TNT2-M64, everything works perfectly 😀

Edit: damed thing won't boot from USB. Great...

oeuvre wrote:

A Fujitsu 18GB 68 pin 10,000RPM SCSI drive! Anyone know how loud it would be?

Just use it with a Geforce FX5800 Ultra, you won't hear the disk 🤣

oeuvre wrote:

A Fujitsu 18GB 68 pin 10,000RPM SCSI drive! Anyone know how loud it would be?

You should ask the question of how hot it will run. The noise is just an annoyance.

From very loud to bearable. HP 10k RPM's had extremely loud heads, 15k RPM Fujitsu's weren that bad.

I have 2x Fujitsu 10K RPM 18.6GB Hard drives, and 3x Seagate 73.4GB 15K RPM Hard drives, and those things were loud, yet enjoyable to hear those hard drives spin up.

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder. I really wish people would leave the brackets on cards though. Sent a message to the seller asking if they still have the brackets.

Is it sad I'd recognise a Matrox card anywhere from any angle? 😀

Not really. The layout and positioning of the daughterboard expansion port pins are a very Matrox specific thing.

cyclone3d wrote:

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder.

Man. I should keep my eye out for stuff like this. I enjoy grab bags (garage sales, estate sales, attic finds, etc) more than acquiring (bidding on) specific stuff.

They also have very distinctive labels.

meljor wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

A Fujitsu 18GB 68 pin 10,000RPM SCSI drive! Anyone know how loud it would be?

Just use it with a Geforce FX5800 Ultra, you won't hear the disk 🤣

I wonder who here actually has an FX5800?

I can't bear the sound of such harddrives. I will never forget a Fujitsu Siemens drive which was so loud, I wanted to pile a sandbag on top of that 😵

CkRtech wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder.

Man. I should keep my eye out for stuff like this. I enjoy grab bags (garage sales, estate sales, attic finds, etc) more than acquiring (bidding on) specific stuff.

But if you do that, I will have competition.. which I would rather not have 😈

I wonder if I will be as giddy unpacking this box of stuff as I was when I was unpacking my last box of mostly random cards... I sure hope so, but it is going to be hard to beat a CT1320C, CT1600, Media Vision Vision Thunderboard, ISA Orchid Fahrenheit 1280, and ATI VGA Wonder+ (page 1080).

Please, please, please let there be some really awesome cards in this new box! 🤣

cyclone3d wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

A Fujitsu 18GB 68 pin 10,000RPM SCSI drive! Anyone know how loud it would be?

You should ask the question of how hot it will run. The noise is just an annoyance.

There's a fan blowing directly on the drive cage so heat shouldn't be too much of a worry

Not really Retro but not really contemporary, but I managed to score a Radeon 6950 1GB (minus the screws for the shroud), an extemely cheap AM3 motherboard and fairly cheap 2x2GB DDR3 RAM; I will build an Athlon II X4 potato gaming PC for DX10/11 games with this.

Now here's the question. The 6950 I scored is this:

Does anyone have any clues as to what kind of screws I need for the shroud on these cards? Pretty much all 1GB 6950 models seem to have the same vapor champer + petal heatsink + fan + shroud combo, with different shrouds:

So if anyone has one of these, and can tell me what screws I need for the shroud (M2.5x4? M4x4? etc.) I would be ETERNALLY grateful.

I've tried emailing HIS about this but you can't contact their tech support before you register a product with their shitty Kingdom of Gamer service, and the 6950 is not listed in their Legacy Products list for whatever reason.

I bought a replacement floppy drive for my Amiga600. Comes with ribbon cable and power cable.

cyclone3d wrote:

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder. I really wish people would leave the brackets on cards though. Sent a message to the seller asking if they still have the brackets.

MOAR-cards.jpg

Nice catch! 😀

Why would someone remove the brackets? Some imaginary heat dissipation? Because that's just about the only reason I can think of.

TimMer1981 wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder. I really wish people would leave the brackets on cards though. Sent a message to the seller asking if they still have the brackets.

MOAR-cards.jpg

Nice catch! 😀

Why would someone remove the brackets? Some imaginary heat dissipation? Because that's just about the only reason I can think of.

For recycling, I think.

TimMer1981 wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

This box of goodies... I was the only bidder. I really wish people would leave the brackets on cards though. Sent a message to the seller asking if they still have the brackets.

MOAR-cards.jpg

Nice catch! 😀

Why would someone remove the brackets? Some imaginary heat dissipation? Because that's just about the only reason I can think of.

It is common practice to not ship multiple cards with brackets on them because those tent to scratch and scrape each other to death.

No, they get removed for their scrap value. Also, when recycling such cards, you have to remove them anyway, just like fans, heatsinks, and other foreign matter.