From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 18:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00245 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00227 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (ginger.kf7nn.com [192.168.0.4]) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA17147; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:32:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) From: "George Vagner" To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" , Subject: Re: Caviar Hard Drives Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:33:36 -0500 Message-ID: <01bde824$841e8020$0400a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had 4 WD hard drives go bad on me in 3 years. oh and 1 seagate scsi lasted 3 years without ever being turned off. never had problem with quantum or Maxtor though, i have 2 quantum 5 giggers and a scsi quantum sca i really like. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 8:03 PM Subject: Caviar Hard Drives >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >I am considering adding a second hard drive. The current one is a Maxtor >(don't know the model) 514 Meg HD. I am considering a Western Digital >Caviar and would like to know people's experiences with these on FreeBSD. >I *presume* it would work well, given that WD is the standard, but I could >always be wrong ... > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Jonathan Fosburgh |We shall not cease from exploration >jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, |And the end of all our exploring >wotan@scientist.com |Will be to arrive where we started > |And know the place for the first time. >www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 | >Undergraduate Geophysics |T.S. Eliot, >University of Houston |The Four Quartets >******************************************************************************* > I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- > at I will never live for the sake of another man > nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine. > > Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged >******************************************************************************* > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.2 > >iQBVAwUBNgrqWy+/EgaGK39hAQGapwIAvhfKi2aFundQCQCy7iBmxYsccl1sxTuB >ECGl58HzNf3fZksLOWtbITr/ypyfyIfF33/GCreQpM96uzXqIwns5A== >=Iy4C >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message