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From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Subject: RE: Best behaved  drives for FreeBSD?
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> 
> >IMHO, Maxtor are not very good drives.
> 
> What is wrong with them?
>
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. :-)

> 
> > IBM is about the best EIDE drives I've used recently. 
> > FWIW...
> 
> 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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