Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:04:26 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Francisco Reyes' <fran@reyes.somos.net>, FreeBSD Hardware List <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D779A@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> >IMHO, Maxtor are not very good drives.
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> What is wrong with them?
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I think they're considered the high end of the low end, if that makes any
sense. I've got two in my home machine, and they soak up some 27MB/sec if I
trust bonnie. Too bad bonnie is the only thing that I use that generates
that kind of traffic. :-)
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> > IBM is about the best EIDE drives I've used recently.
> > FWIW...
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> I am a big IBM fan, but they are not making anything less
> than ATA100. Can those work on with a ATA66 motherboards? I
> thought the cables are different.
>
From this may I deduce that this is for a home box, not a web server?
Maxtor's cheap for what they offer, IMHO.
If you are using Ultra/ATA66, you'll need different cables than regular IDE.
Dunno about ATA100.
Kees Jan
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