If the drive you find is an ST15150N, I would avoid it. I had some of those back when they were new and expensive. They are *loud*, *hot* and in my experience, unreliable, but htat could have been a function of the heat.

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Your memory of the 1990s is great, Jeff. Yes, the ST15150N is hot and noisy. All server drives of the same era share the same attributes. Use them in an external case, rather than inside a pizza box Mac. "Unreliability" -- you may have experienced some quick failures, but we didn't. My work colleagues were shouting about lost backups rather than failing Compaq RAIDs. YMMV. Today, I find the ST15150N a useful drive, aside from the formatting problems.