Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 10:01:45 MET From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) To: kleung@frodi.cs.uop.edu (Tiggie) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What type of hard drive to buy? Message-ID: <9503100901.AA15801@login.dknet.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950310002502.28595B@uop.cs.uop.edu>; from "Tiggie" at Mar 10, 95 12:46 am
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> I am new to the FreeBSD area. I am currently thinking of purchasing a
> hard drive to devote completely to FreeBSD.
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> Will FreeBSD 2.1 be having support for EIDE? Right now, I can't decide
> on what type of hard drive to buy for my system. Currently my setup is:
Maybe, I'm currently hacking away on a ATA/ATAPI driver, mostly
to support IDE CDROM's but I'd like to do the disks also (if
time permits).
> I was thinking about purchasing one of the following:
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> Quantum Empire 1080 meg SCSI-2 HD (IMP1080S)
> Quantum Capella 1108 meg SCSI-2 HD (VP32210S)
> Western Digital 1080 meg EIDE HD (WDAC31000)
I would *definitively* go with a SCSI drive, having looked at the
ide/e-ide specs you really *dont* want an ide/e-ide drive !!
> Would anyone have any ideas on how their performance would be like in the
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