From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 10 08:45:45 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA17925 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:45:45 -0800 Received: from dtr.com (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA17919 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:45:43 -0800 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA05443; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:43:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199503101643.IAA05443@dtr.com> Subject: Re: What type of hard drive to buy? To: kleung@frodi.cs.uop.edu (Tiggie) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:43:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Tiggie" at Mar 10, 95 00:46:00 am Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1437 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am new to the FreeBSD area. I am currently thinking of purchasing a > hard drive to devote completely to FreeBSD. > 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: > Pentium 90 MHz (Zeos Pantera system) > 16 megs RAM > 3.5" floppy > SCSI CD-ROM drive > 528 meg HD (Segate ST5660A) > 81 meg HD (Western Digital WDAC280) > Sound Blaster Pro card > 14.4 internal modem (Supra) > Adaptec 1522 SCSI control integrated on motherboard > ** The motherboard has am integrated EIDE controller able to > support 4 HDs. Question for the hardware gurus: Given that the Adaptec 152x series aren't the fastest SCSI controllers in the world (that's putting it kindly) - what would be the preferred controller, the 152x, or EIDE? Just curious - I already have a Buslogic 445. > I was thinking about purchasing one of the following: > Quantum Empire 1080 meg SCSI-2 HD (IMP1080S) > Quantum Capella 1108 meg SCSI-2 HD (VP32210S) > Western Digital 1080 meg EIDE HD (WDAC31000) I can't comment on any of these - haven't used them. > Would anyone have any ideas on how their performance would be like in the > current version of FreeBSD? Or opinions of other hard drives that I > should consider purchasing? (Something in the size of 1 GB to about 1.5 GB.) I've heard good things about the Seagate Barracuda series.