From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 13:36:52 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA18105 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:36:52 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA18092 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:36:47 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06906; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:36:12 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508122036.NAA06906@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Aug 12, 95 03:10:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1059 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > [CC: list trimmed, primarily to save my machine work :-)] > > > > In message , -V > > ince- writes: > > >> And the drive is a Micropolis 1991. > > > > > Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be > > >better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)? > > > > Dunno about quiet - it's in a machine room... I don't think so tho. > > Is Micropolis pretty reliable though? Micropolis has one of the best track records in the industry for the reliability of thier drives. They were the only vendor for a long time to pass Auspex's reliability requirements. > What drives does wcarchive and freefall use? Seagates and Micropolis on wcarchive last I heard, and Freefall is pure Quantum unless something has changed last time I looked at dmesg output. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD