Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:41:35 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950813223920.9552y-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508122036.NAA06906@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > > > > [CC: list trimmed, primarily to save my machine work :-)] > > > > > > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812140011.9552e-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -V > > > ince- writes: > > > >> And the drive is a Micropolis 1991. > > > > > > > Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be > > > >better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)? > > > > > > Dunno about quiet - it's in a machine room... I don't think so tho. > > > > Is Micropolis pretty reliable though? > > Micropolis has one of the best track records in the industry for the > reliability of thier drives. They were the only vendor for a long time > to pass Auspex's reliability requirements. Hmmmm, okay but I thought Micropolis wasn't that big of a player in the market. Isn't Seagates reliable since they are using the technology they bought from CDC/Imprimus many years ago atleast on their WREN and Elite Drives... > > What drives does wcarchive and freefall use? > > Seagates and Micropolis on wcarchive last I heard, and Freefall is pure > Quantum unless something has changed last time I looked at dmesg output. Hmmm, okay... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.3.91.950813223920.9552y-100000>