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Indigo 2 Hard drive - gmcenroe - 03-24-2024

I am looking for a replacement 9GB Hard disk drive for my Indigo 2. Attached is a picture of my unit. Although this has a part number it appears that IBM sold these in different configurations with the same part number. There are several of these units available on ebay or even amazon. I almost bought one that was identical to mine for $45 that was pulled from an SGI according to the seller. It has a different drive sled but everything else seemed to match up,. My only concern was that it did not indicate that it was a working unit, could be parts only. I don't know what parts one could salvage from a hard drive, but the sled is different that mine. 

Any good suggestions as how to identify the correct unit would be helpful.

RE: Indigo 2 Hard drive - gmcenroe - 03-27-2024

(03-24-2024, 05:11 AM)gmcenroe Wrote:  I am looking for a replacement 9GB Hard disk drive for my Indigo 2. Attached is a picture of my unit. Although this has a part number it appears that IBM sold these in different configurations with the same part number. There are several of these units available on ebay or even amazon. I almost bought one that was identical to mine for $45 that was pulled from an SGI according to the seller. It has a different drive sled but everything else seemed to match up,. My only concern was that it did not indicate that it was a working unit, could be parts only. I don't know what parts one could salvage from a hard drive, but the sled is different that mine. 

Any good suggestions as how to identify the correct unit would be helpful.
I was getting hard drive failures very frequently requiring reboots almost twice per day so I thought that the hard drive was about to fail. After I pulled out the drive to post this earlier message and get part numbers etc, I cleaned out some dust and cat hair from the hard drive compartment and reinstalled the drive. Since then I have had no failures so I am not going to replace it at this time. These intermittent errors are frustrating but I prefer to replace upon complete failure since this is not mission critical.