From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:06:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD2916A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:06:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out009.verizon.net (out009pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5577643D45 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:06:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out009.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040616170644.MYIX29216.out009.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:06:44 -0500 Message-ID: <40D07E1C.10102@mac.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:06:36 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd_daemon References: <5313.1087388971@www32.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <5313.1087388971@www32.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:06:44 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE hard disk recoms X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:06:45 -0000 freebsd_daemon wrote: > does someone have some recommondations for IDE hard disks to use in a small > server? Sure. I'd pick up a 7200 RPM ATA drive with 8MB of cache, such as the Western Digital WD1200JB. Pick another size (40GB, 80GB, probably through 200GB) if you like. Seagate and Maxtor are also pretty good names; the former tends to be more expensive and higher performing, the latter are quiet, a little slow, but generally reliable and cheap. The IBM UltraStar models are quite good, whereas the DeskStars have dubious reliability, and Quantum made the term "stiction" famous more than a decade ago with the Q105 SCSI drives that wouldn't spin up, so I wouldn't rely on that vendor either. -- -Chuck