Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:02:57 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: External HDD Message-ID: <20070209050252.99EFB13C46B@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420702080827q57258cedtbd573eb988cd9e86@mail.gmail.com>
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Only a solid-state storage could provide such reliability, RAID is a must if you want fault tolerance, otherwise. -Simon On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:27:37 +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: >On 2/8/07, Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> wrote: >> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: >> > Hmm, Samsung 3,5" drives are rather cheap these days, >> > look like a bargain to me. I remember they were regarded >> > as a bit slow, but stable some years ago, wonder if that >> > is still true... >> >> The Samsung T166 500GB drive not only has the highest GB-per-euro/dollar >> ratio but is also the fastest drive in terms of Sequential Transfer Rate >> (STR); beating even the WD Raptor; though i have to say random I/O >> performance is much more important than STR. >What I'm worried the most about is reliability. I would >settle for 10Mb/sec performance if I had a guarantee it >would work 24x7x365 for 10 years straight... >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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