Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 20:02:09 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Steven Plite <splite@purdue.edu>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quiet 7200rpm disk recommendations? Message-ID: <199803070202.UAA15371@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> of "Fri, 06 Mar 1998 13:18:40 CST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306131318.721A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Chris Dillon writes: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Steven Plite wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a relatively quiet 2-4GB 7200RPM Ultra-SCSI disk, > > suitable for office desktop use? I replaced a Barracuda 2LP (which squeals [...] > 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). Ditto. A while back I played with a 7200 RPM Seagate ST15150N and a narrow DCAS 34330 on an SGI Indy R5000. Simple test using dd to write a 1G file in 1M chunks yeilded about 8M/sec for the IBM and 7M/sec for the "faster" Seagate. Both disks had freshly created XFS filesystems. The Indy SCSI was only Fast, not Ultra. I don't think rotation speed tells the whole story. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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