From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 18 12:57:50 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA17453 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:57:50 -0700 Received: from penzance.econ.yale.edu (penzance.econ.yale.edu [130.132.32.100]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA17447 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:57:48 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 15:56:13 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Michael Smith cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-Reply-To: <199508140326.MAA20188@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > >> Micropolis has one of the best track records in the industry for the > >> reliability of thier drives. They were the only vendor for a long time > >> to pass Auspex's reliability requirements. > > > > Hmmmm, okay but I thought Micropolis wasn't that big of a player > > in the market. Isn't Seagates reliable since they are using the > > technology they bought from CDC/Imprimus many years ago atleast on their > > WREN and Elite Drives... > > Seagate make/have made some of the very best, and some of the very worst > disks on the market. As Rod observed, their Hawk and Hawk-II drives > have proven themselves to be very good units. The Barracuda family are > actually reasonably old technology, and weighted their design tradeoffs > very heavily in favour of performance. As a consequence, they have > (possibly) excessive heat dissipation and noise characteristics, but > when they came out, there was nothing that could touch them for speed. Hmmm okay but what drives can touch the barracuda's in terms of speed? > Micropolis have been around for a _long_ time; anyone remember the DEC RD53? > Whilst that wasn't a particularly good disk, they have a really solid > reputation, and (here at least) they offer a 5-year warranty on most of > their disks. That's true but like it seems like wasn't CDC one of the drives that was like a industry standard? > Rod, while we're on disks; the 4G Conner looks great on price, what's > the story on it wrt performance and survivability? I had a bad run > with Conner and Quantum a while ago, but I guess it's time to try again 8) Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center