From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 6 16:42:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19496 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (root@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19483 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA00418; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:41:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:41:29 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon X-Sender: cdillon@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us To: Ollivier Robert cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quiet 7200rpm disk recommendations? In-Reply-To: <19980306231050.A20106@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Chris Dillon: > > If you would consider a 5400RPM drive since it is only for desktop use, > > the 4.3GB IBM DCAS 34330W (the Ultrastar 2ES I believe) is very quiet, > > even when seeking (I have two of them in my box at home). > > Same opinion here. My two DCAS are very quiet and 9 MB/s is not too bad for > 5400 rpms drives. They run rather cool too. Oh yeah, did I mention they were fast and ran cool? ;-) They are indeed fast drives, for only spinning at 5400RPM. I use the two I have in a striped ccd configuration and have managed about 15 or 17 MB/sec according to bonnie (this is off the top of my head and I forget which test it was). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message