From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 10 9:17:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26B337B658 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA08534; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:09:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008101609.MAA08534@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD Hardware List" , "Koster, K.J." Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:18:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D779A@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:04:26 +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: >> >> >IMHO, Maxtor are not very good drives. >> >> What is wrong with them? >> >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. :-) I am planning to put them on a 3Ware RAID 0 so I hopefully will be able to see good throughput. >From this may I deduce that this is for a home box, not a web server? What is the obsession with web servers on the FreeBSD lists? :-) There is a whole (corporate) world outside of web related stuff. No this is not for home and it is not for a web server. This is for a "temporary storage" box at work. Basically people put trash on all our Netware/NT servers so I am going to create this 120GB box and tell people that this is the only place they can put junk. I may also use it for staging of some backups and to store a library of software. >Maxtor's cheap for what they offer, IMHO. Yes. I am getting two 40Gig to put on a raid 1 and 2 60GB for a raid 0. >If you are using Ultra/ATA66, you'll need different cables than regular IDE. Yes I am ordering them. I don't know if we have any at the office. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message