Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:50:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: ck@toplink.de (Christian Kratzer) Cc: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball, any good? Message-ID: <199508280950.CAA00607@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508280844.KAA00864@toplink1.toplink.de> from "Christian Kratzer" at Aug 28, 95 10:44:05 am
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> > Hi > > sorry about the previous empty message. > > > Hi, > > > > I can get a nice deal on a quantum fireball 1080S. Are they any good > > performancewise? Any known flaws with respect to FreeBSD (2.0.5)? > > It will be connected to a NCR53c825 on a Dell 90Mhz pentium. > > > I have two of them in my 2.0R system. I don`t have any performance > data handy but here's something else. > > I did have serious problems when I tried installing. After I had partioned > them and booted for the second time FreeBSD kept crashing on the fsck > of /dev/sd0e. Actually you could hear the spindle motor stop as if somebody > had turned to power off. After going nuts over a weekend I finally managed > to get the installtion going by manually running newfs and fsck. > > Perhaps somebody could comment on the reliability of this drive. I am > running a newsfeed into a 800MB partition on one of these drives. It's > taking quite a hammering when a batch of new articles comes in. Oh, I forget to mention this in my other reply, anytime I see a drive manuafacture drop performance, price and reliabilty numbers for a new series of drives vs what they had been shipping it scares me BIG TIME about those drives. The fireball/lightning series in effect replaced the Empire/ProDrive series on the low end of Quantums scale. Along with it came a warranty reduction from 5 years to 3 years, a drop in MTBF numbers from 500k to 300K, and a huge price drop. Now you go figure it... is it Quantum wanting to break into the PC disk drive market in a bigger way, or is Quantum going to forsake it's reputation and start selling junk drives? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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