From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 14 10:27:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA29778 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 10:27:12 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA29741 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 10:26:51 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id TAA19540 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:26:41 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id TAA28400 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:26:41 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id TAA07897; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:25:02 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511141825.TAA07897@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: your mail To: daemon@bee.cs.kiev.ua (System Daemon) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:25:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org (Hardware Mailing list) In-Reply-To: <199511141318.PAA19131@bee.cs.kiev.ua> from "System Daemon" at Nov 14, 95 03:18:11 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1327 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that System Daemon said: > I ask you about experience (good/bad) about 1G SCSI-2 drives. > I have found one from Conner here for ~$280. Sounds attractive > (most other drives are in the $350-$400 range), but I am not > totally sure about its speed/reliability. Some friends and I have tested several: - Micropolis: bad things overall. At least three failed recently and a 9 GB too. We think that recent Micropolis drives are not reliable anymore which is a pity. I have an old 1624 (640 MB) which 3 yrs old and is working perfectly albeit hotly :-) - Conner: I have a 1080S and I'm very happy with it. Avoid the 1060S if you don't want to upgrade the firmware. Some series have a bug which appear with fast drivers like NCR and Aha-2940. The 1080S is a fast drive. - Seagate: I have a Hawk ST-31200N and I'm very happy too. I don't know the new models (31230N). The 31200N is a little slower then the Conner. - IBM: three friends brought a very recent IBM drive (not the 662 which is at least 2 yrs old and very hot) and they seem very happy. It has not been long enough to see if they will be reliable but they works fine for now. - Quantum: avoid the Fireball series, it is a old drive repackaged with a lower MTBF and a shorted warranty (3 yrs / 5 usual ones @ Quantum). I think the Capella are good ones but I have not tested them. Rod will probably give even more information as he tends to test every drive out there :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Nov 12 16:47:05 MET 1995