Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:43:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: george@vagner.com (vagner) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Freebsd Questions) Subject: Re: offtopic fast hard drive Message-ID: <200006221543.KAA29009@sullivan.realtime.net> In-Reply-To: <LPBBKFCBJMKMFLIMDPEJCEBPCEAA.george@vagner.com> from vagner at "Jun 22, 2000 06:27:33 am"
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> I am looking for a suggestion for a hard drive > that will push my new aha-2940u2w to the limit. > As has been said, "a" disk probably won't do that... :-) > > i been looking at seagate barracuda's and IBM's > but they are so far in price difference i dont know > whay one is / is not superior to the other? > Hard to say. IBM and Seagate are definitely locked in a very competitive battle for SCSI supremacy. I have both on my system. > > can anyone really say which one is the fastest for my card? > I haven't measured them. I went with the Seagate 7200 LVD 9GB drive initially simply due to cost, but installed the IBM 18GB 10k LVD due to needing more room. The IBM is quieter on seeks, however... > > WD has some impressive pricing right now for a 18 gig > but why is it only half as much as a seagate? > Hmmm. Are you sure it is a SCSI driver? LVD? 10k RPM? Those are reasons for the cost being much lower. On the other hand, it seems the rotating media should be the same whether EIDE or SCSI, and the electronics shouldn't add that to the price, so I have felt SCSI disk prices have been artificially high simply because the markey will pay that price. Perhaps WD is attempting to break into the SCSI market in a big way? Oh, check the MTBF numbers to make sure WD's numbers are reasonably close to Seagate and IBM... Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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