Yep, that's the one I got from that eBay vendor. The full-height bracket didn't quite 'fit' properly, but a bit of bending got it to work. Not a show stopper by any means.
Drive is a Western Digital WD200 200 GB IDE disk, not sure offhand if it's the 2MB or the 8MB cache version (would have to pull things apart to check now) and made in 2004 - so one might argue that the latest crop of SATA disks should run much faster. In any regard however, here is the
diskperf
run on it:
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Dudley 1# diskperf -W -D -c4g /disk3/test
#---------------------------------------------------------
# Disk Performance Test Results Generated By Diskperf V1.2
#
# Test name : Unspecified
# Test date : Wed Mar 25 17:53:43 2009
# Test machine : IRIX64 Dudley 6.5 07202013 IP35
# Test type : XFS data subvolume
# Test path : /disk3/test
# Request sizes : min=16384 max=4194304
# Parameters : direct=1 time=10 scale=1.000 delay=0.000
# XFS file size : 4294967296 bytes
#---------------------------------------------------------
# req_size fwd_wt fwd_rd bwd_wt bwd_rd rnd_wt rnd_rd
# (bytes) (MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s) (MB/s)
#---------------------------------------------------------
16384 43.75 34.36 7.03 7.50 3.74 1.69
32768 45.96 40.45 11.83 7.99 6.89 3.25
65536 44.76 22.84 18.39 8.32 11.94 5.92
131072 44.74 44.70 18.61 17.41 13.75 9.82
262144 46.63 24.65 25.04 17.79 20.22 14.52
524288 46.13 25.54 28.42 28.32 25.65 21.33
1048576 46.49 34.45 37.03 36.56 32.68 28.76
2097152 47.32 37.19 44.00 44.39 39.70 34.08
4194304 46.32 41.39 44.36 43.40 43.63 33.52
Dudley 2#
Bit inconsistent on the read speeds, but one could probably argue that given the vintage nature of the disk that 45 MB/sec is probably close to the areal transfer rate of the drive, and again a modern zoomy SATA drive would probably double that.
As for the SATA->IDE adapter, it's one of those 'bidirectional' ones. Looks like it uses the SATALink SPIF223A chipset, board is labelled RXD639 Rev 1.2 2008-10, blister pack is labelled "
IDE to SATA or SARA to IDE Adpter
" (typo's as shown) - but in order to get clearance with the wind turbine housing in the Fuel had to use a right-angle SATA cable and not the one that came with it. I'd guess that probably any of the SATA->IDE bridge-boards would work OK and would have less clearance issues. Camera is on charge, will try to post some pics up later.
As I noted before, once the Fuel booted up and found everything, the disk truly acted just like a standard SCSI disk with all of the GUI disk admin tools. No futzing with crazy mount paths. So far it's been working fine.
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