From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 18:47:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iway1.iw.net (iway1.iw.net [204.157.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01974 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from little-death (rapid67.dtgnet.com [208.128.189.67]) by iway1.iw.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA13813; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:45:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000a01bde826$4af651e0$43bd80d0@little-death> From: "Dragon Knight" To: "Rick Hamell" , "Jonathan Fosburgh" Cc: Subject: Re: Caviar Hard Drives Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:46:17 -0600 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 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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 ... > > > There have been a lot of problems with Caviars lately. (Within the >last year,) I personally suggest going with Fuji or better yet, SCSI >Quantum Atlas IIs :) > > > Rick > Really? I have had a Caviar 36400 for about 6 months now and i have had nothing but good luck with it, it has been in numerous different machine's with different setups and has always performed flawlessly. What sort of problems have people been having lately? Samuel Greear To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message