From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 21:57:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9BAA14CAF for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 21:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@emusic.com) Received: (qmail 2579 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 1999 05:57:04 -0000 Message-ID: <19990320055704.2576.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 2561 invoked from network); 20 Mar 1999 05:57:03 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 1999 05:57:03 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Emusic To: Christopher Michaels , FreeBSD Questions , francis@usls.edu Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 21:57:01 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: [OT] which is which? Reply-To: walton@emusic.com In-reply-to: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5F99@site2s1> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As long as people are tossing pennies around, here's my two: I'd rank Seagate as #2, behind IBM. I have yet to see an IBM drive die for any reason. Dave On 19 Mar 99, at 10:09, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Just my $0.02 but my Seagate drives have been the most reliable drives I've > ever had. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick Hamell [SMTP:hamellr@dsinw.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:28 PM > > To: Francis A. Vidal > > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: Re: [OT] which is which? > > > > > > > i'm planning to upgrade our proxy server running FreeBSD 2.2.8-stable. i > > > was thinking of getting a Seagate Barracuda 9LP or Quantum Atlas IV -- > > > which is better? what motherboard is good for a proxy server? i'm > > > considering Asustek P2B-D and Intel Pentium II 450 MHz. what do you > > think? > > > > Personally, I've had bad experiences with Seagate anything, and > > Intell motherboards. You really can't go wrong with an Asustek motherboard > > though. (I just wish they still made SCSI cards....:( Quantum Atlas drives > > have been great for me, ftp.cdrom.com runs mostly that type. But I did > > have a long conversation with someone else who has had problems with them > > about 8 months ago. > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Emusic walton@emusic.com http://www.emusic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message