From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 28 19:26:18 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 E20FF37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28B243E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:26:14 -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 g9T3PxbT002409; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:56:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chuck Robey Cc: Kenneth Culver , "Wilkinson,Alex" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021028213317.Y45658-100000@april.chuckr.org> References: <20021028213317.Y45658-100000@april.chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 29 Oct 2002 03:25:59 +0000 Message-Id: <1035861964.77698.83.camel@chowder.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.5 () IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK 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 02:40, Chuck Robey wrote: > > 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 :( > > No, I'd take issue with that, hitting on all HD mfrs in general, it has > more to do with the technology, and the focus of the market it's aimed at. > In general, SCSI drives have a far better rep than the IDE drives. That > probably has to do with the market sector they focus on. With one > exception (a heat problem I probably must blame on myself doing some > learning) I've had no problems with scsi drives, and I beat hell out of > them. They sure do have a better rep. but they DO cost 4x as much :) (Not including a controller) > I guess if you *must* run IDE, then run raid arrays. If you don't run > either, then you can't complain if you buy the cheapest and don't get the > best reliability. Indeed, though in general I find it pretty hard to justify SCSI prices in the particular application we have. -- 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