From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 15 03:17:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA01137 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 03:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA01129 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 03:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id FAA17066; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:17:23 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017057; Tue Apr 15 10:17:19 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970415050934.00b5f3fc@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:09:35 -0500 To: Joe Greco From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Micropolis 3243 7200 rpm in a newsmachine? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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