IBM Disk Eight-Pack Mounting Kit - hard drive mounting kit

Advantages: Large and fast removable storage.
Disadvantages: Can get a bit warm during operation.

...to unplug the drive each time I simply wanted to turn it off, just because there wasn't a switch on the back! "Whisper quiet operation" - it is pretty quiet and certainly a lot quieter than the average PC, so you never really notice noise from it. A stand is included so you can mount the drive on its side to take up less space. I don't know if this is common for external drives, but this drive can be set to power down after a period of inactivity like an internal hard disk. (The default is 60 mins, but can be changed). **Getting Hot Hot Hot... well, quite warm anyhow:** The drive enclosure is made from a pretty solid piece of aluminium which I'm sure must help to dissipate the heat created by the hard drive, but still it can get quite warm to the touch. I've personally mounted a cpu fan+heatsink on the drive enclosure (connected... Read review

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Advantages: Consistently fast, reliable, quiet
Disadvantages: none (that I know of)

...This is a great drive, that I bought about a year ago when I built my PC. I was looking for a good all round IDE hard disk - fast, reliable, and well priced. After reading various reviews, I discovered the best hard disk in its class. Was it a Maxtor? WD? Seagate? No - it was made by IBM. >Price< The drives are selling in many places, such as dabs.com. The DeskStar line is extremely well priced, so price/performance ratio is excellent here if you are on a budget. >Performance< I am a musician and I use digital audio/recording applications. These can be very hard-disk intensive, and the Deslstar 120GXP performs brilliantly. I also have a firewire-capable digital camcorder so I use the PC to edit digital video which is also very hard-disk intensive. Again, the drive performs competently. Seek times and transfer rates are top... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: good build quality - rarely break down - It's an IBM!
Disadvantages: support website can sometimes be awkward to navigate.

...I must have built / overseen the build on about 100 of these over the last five years starting with the X220 up to this current 226 and I have had very little to complain about. You can also buy a rack conversion kit in order to rack mount it With the addition of a pair of 73GB 10K hot swap scsi drives (about £250-300 for the pair) configured to use the on board HostRaid the 226 is an ideal entry level or terminal server. I have often installed it (with the addition of a 6i RAID controller to give a RAID5 config) with MS SBS2003 standard as the main server for a small business of up to 25 users. It handles file & print and exchange without any real fuss although I would recommend plenty of RAM if you are going to do this as Exchange can be quite memory hungry The on-board HostRaid card comes disabled so you have to go in and set... Read review

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