From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 17:45:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1AD37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:45:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6547143E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9T1gxDF061003; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:42:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g9T1gvXF061000; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:42:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:42:57 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Wilkinson,Alex" , Subject: Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ? In-Reply-To: <20021028202933.Q59710-100000@april.chuckr.org> Message-ID: <20021028204130.D59907-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,X_AUTH_WARNING,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK, NO_MX_FOR_FROM,AWL version=2.31 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You might want to give that a bit of thought. IBM, while producing OK > scsi disks, has had a really terrible headache getting reliability into > their IDE products. Additionally, IBM just sold their entire hard disk > product line to some other company. I don't know if that had anything to > do with their well-publicized IDE reliability problems or not, but I'd > fight shy of any IBM IDE disks, in any app which requires any kind of > stability. > > If you don't care about reliability, tho, there are some good deals I've > seen on those disks, tho ... being dumped in mass cheaply. Again, this > has nothing to do with their scsi disks, which are just fine. > I'd probably steer clear of the western digital drives as well. Yes the 8MB cache that some of them have DOES make a difference, but from personal experience, the drives themselves don't last that long. So in short, what good is a fast hard-drive if it's just going to break faster too? Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message