From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 02:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07301 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA07222 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zNZgr-0005la-00; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:33:57 +0200 Message-ID: <19980928113357.F22025@cityip.co.za> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:33:57 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Jonathan Fosburgh , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Caviar Hard Drives Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Fosburgh , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 07:56:49PM -0500 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 at 19:56 SAT, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > I am considering adding a second hard drive. The current one is a Maxtor > (don't know the model) 514 Meg HD. I am considering a Western Digital > Caviar and would like to know people's experiences with these on FreeBSD. > I *presume* it would work well, given that WD is the standard, but I could > always be wrong ... Every person you ask will have a different opinion as to which drives are good and which aren't. :-) FWIW, I've had quite a few problems with the larger capacity (4GB upwards) WD drives over the past year or so. Might just have been a run of bad luck. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message