From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 05:07:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4DE16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:07:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from charentes.fr.clara.net (charentes.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D9443F75 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ogautherot@freesurf.fr) Received: from mail.freesurf.fr (mail.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.50]) by charentes.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5520059A7D; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:07:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.freesurf.fr (Postfix, from userid 5000) id EF934E4A01; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:07:24 +0100 (CET) References: <200311190158.hAJ1wNOi000727@mist.nodomain> <20031119035315.61bbe274.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> From: ogautherot@freesurf.fr To: Bryan Cassidy Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:07:24 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Message-Id: <20031120130724.EF934E4A01@mail.freesurf.fr> cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:07:27 -0000 Hi Bryan! I've had Seagate HDD in a PC for over 5 years and I am offering the PC soon to my parents. They seem to be pretty hard to kill. So I would recommend Seagate. I bought an IBM hard disk recently but the heads had "landed" and it made a terrible noise. I replaced it and the new unit seems pretty stable (but I have had it for a couple of months so far - difficult to give a real opinion so far). They tend to be competitive for high capacity so you may check that. The type choice will depend mostly on the capacity you need. Hope it helps Olivier Bryan Cassidy écrit: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've got EVERYTHING picked out BUT the harddrive and controller card for > the hard drive. Do you have any recommendations (seagate model #????) on > the hard drive and/or controller card for a IDE HD? I'm kinda confused. > I see people talking about RAID but not really sure what it is and what > it does? Maybe you could explain a little to me? > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:24:32 +0100 > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: > > > Bryan Cassidy writes: > > > Hard drive: > > > SEAGATE SCSI 36.0GB 10000RPM, MODEL# ST336607LW -X10 > > > > Don't bother with SCSI. It's definitely faster than IDE, but it's not > > worth the price for a desktop system. You'll probably be a lot > > happier running a RAID0 over two 120GB IDE drives (provided your > > motherboard has a RAID BIOS, or you buy a dual-channel PCI RAID > > adapter such as the Promise TX2000) > > > > DES > > -- > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQE/vLMPjnOL7dYm/EQRApPIAKDuo08pkX7HPALsS6Pt7eYnEq2B8gCg7nHS > xFAU1quhwz1SpSAWO7cN9As= > =jnnu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"