From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:40:38 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 9F6B216A4EC for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:40:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4161343D48 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:40:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from [132.147.16.8] ([195.194.75.70]) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i5GHgYOp069886; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:42:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Message-ID: <40D085F6.8010100@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:40:06 +0100 From: Mike Woods User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040607) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5313.1087388971@www32.gmx.net> <40D07E1C.10102@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <40D07E1C.10102@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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 17:40:38 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. Seconded, but id get the sata version and a caddy for a server, makes like easier with changes etc and caddies can be had with extra cooling fans installed which should help lengthen the life of the drive. > 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. I dont know about today but seagate drives used to have real longevity problems years ago (back in my amiga days :)) > 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. IBM fixed the problems with the deskstars long ago (with the gxp120) and all the drives since have been known to be reliable drives with good preformance for a nice price, also hitachi own the deskstars now. As for quantum, you've recomended them above :) Maxtor bought quantums hard dive division years ago and most maxtor drives since are basicly quantum designs or derivertives off them :) Mike Woods IT Technician