From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 18: 4: 4 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 7BE7637B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DF143E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:04:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9T23obT001010; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:33:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Kenneth Culver Cc: Chuck Robey , "Wilkinson,Alex" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 29 Oct 2002 02:03:50 +0000 Message-Id: <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -2.9 () IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,PORN_10 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives > > are pretty unreliable though. > > > Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has > ended up with problems which were of course handled by the warranty, but > even then, I still had to reinstall the os and pull a bunch of stuff from > my backups which was a pain to do for each failure. Like I said, just my > personal experience. I don't think the new 8MB cache drives have been out > long enough to actually develop the problems I've seen on WD drives > though. Yes, but my point is that the AA drives are bad, but the BB drives seem good. I have been using them for a while (~1 year) without trouble. I believe the JB drives are much more closely related to the BB drives (ie effectively identical but with a bigger cache). Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding what to buy a PITA :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message