Windows 7 RC1 experiences

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Originally Posted by Reece

Where's all the pretty address & data lights, (led chasers etc) you have to admit the old ones looked and sounded more impressive, the floor would rumble with the movement of the HDD voice coil heads moving plus the large 14" disks spinning at 3.5 thousand rpm, used to love hearing them come up to speed, was like stepping into a sci-fi movie (time tunnel), glad I lived through those pioneering days!!

Not much has changed. These things have plenty of blinky lights and suck down a ton of power. These days however, storage is handled by SANs over Fibre Channel, so that is a whole other box with lots of HD's all churning away. The Fans to keep these M9000's cool however will probably blow you away.

-S