Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:09:35 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970415050934.00b5f3fc@mixcom.com>
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At 08:14 AM 4/14/97 CDT, Joe Greco wrote: >As much as anything is up to chance and luck where hard drives are >concerned, I've had rather bad luck with the 3243's as well, and would >not consider buying one for most applications - particularly news. I've only had one Mic die (4217) and the news box lives on only Seagates. >I _really_ like the Seagate Hawk drives. You can probably get a pair >of Hawk 2GB's for the same price as the 3243, and they'll be faster >overall. I use the 1GB variety, but the 2GB'ers seem to be the same... >I've seen one failure out of sixty or eighty of the 1GB drives >in the last year, IIRC. They run cool, even if you don't cool >them properly. You don't have to worry like you do about the Barra's. I'm a Hawk fan myself... and I like the new ones. >(The new Barra's run almost as cool, however). ... but there older 2Gb cudas run hot, while the 4Gb are much cooler. One 2Gb cuda is a bit iffy now, but it's just news. Oops! Did I say that? 8-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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