From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 13 03:36:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA09986 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA09969 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from cantina.clinet.fi (root@cantina.clinet.fi [194.100.0.15]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.6/8.6.4) with ESMTP id NAA16379 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:35:52 +0200 (EET) Received: (hsu@localhost) by cantina.clinet.fi (8.7.5/8.6.4) id NAA13347; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:35:51 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:35:51 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199611131135.NAA13347@cantina.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: News server disks Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We are upgrading our news server, but I have trouble obtaining faster quantum disks (Atlas). Slower fireball 3G disks and seagates I can get my hands on. So, question, which one is better: 7 * 3G quantum fireball (4 for spool, 1 for overview data) 2 * 2G + 4 * 4G seagate (hawk or faster) quantums have sort-of-working write cache, which seagates do not, but seek time is slower. Seagate option is considerably more expensive. Having more quantums would probably compensate for slower seek times, and better (existing) write cache would be helpful. Any experience with fireballs, are they of any use ? -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-9-43542270 fax -4555276