From: waynej...@gmail.com   
      
   I have half a dozen Vulcan drives. Mostly I use the cards with CF adapters but   
   I like having hard drives in the power supplies. I have vintage drives for all   
   the power supplies but most of them are noisier than more modern drives and   
   slow as well. I don†  
   ™t want to put a CF adapter inside the power supply because I can just plug it   
   directly into the card. The two options I looked at were to copy an image of a   
   drive onto a 250gb SSD with ide adapter and more recent ide hard drives. In   
   this case 180gb hard    
   drives. That worked well, the Vulcan cards think they’re 40 and 100mb hard   
   drives. They were both pretty fast so I benchmarked them. The SSD, 180gb HD   
   and CF benchmarked exactly the same. All of them are way faster than the   
   Vulcan card. The hard drive    
   does take a moment to spin up but I can’t seem to see any seek time. I   
   wonder if the data is all on a few tracks that are pretty much under the heads   
   all the time. The hard drives are pretty quiet, I almost have to put my ear up   
   to the case to hear    
   them. I’ll keep the original hard drives around in case I should ever want   
   to reinstall them.   
   The original fans were pretty noisy. I could hear them in the next room. I   
   tried peeling back the label and oiling them. That did help some but I decided   
   to install new quiet fans.    
      
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