From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 05:24:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20898 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20893 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA05555; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:24:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Travis Mikalson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI Drives In-Reply-To: <359022CB.726C@terranova.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Travis Mikalson wrote: > Cliff Addy wrote: > > The hands-down winner for reliability for us has been IBM UltraStar > > drives. We run web servers and our drives get beat on all day, every day. > > Now if Murphy heard you say that and your IBMs haven't done something > evil on you as a result, I guess I may try one or two :) > > Does this good experience with the UltraStar disks include the (scary to > me) 10,000 RPM drives as well? No, these are the older 5400 and 7200(?) models. Plenty fast enough for us. Unfortunately, the 5400s are getting scarce, but if you can find them they're generally <$250 for 4.5GB Ultra-Wide. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message