From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 6:59:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A274E37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 06:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4QDx8D01600; Sat, 26 May 2001 09:59:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105261359.f4QDx8D01600@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Ron Klinkien" Cc: "Greg Lehey" , "Thomas Lau" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 May 2001 10:37:31 +0200." <00d301c0e5bf$1ae67900$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 09:59:08 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ron rumbled > Another important thing I keep in mind when choosing a harddrive > is the amount of noise they make. > Since a few days I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP and it's _very > quiet_, it also doesn't get hot at all... *sigh* I've got three 15k cheethas slated for my new dual athlon workstation this summer. (plus 4 ide drives as a scratchy drive and raid backup for the scsi system). I've got a feeling this puppy only gets turned on when It's time to run a model. At least I'll be warm in the winter . . . What would be nice would be a simple box with two drive bays and a video card slot to hold a scsi cdrw and the card for the monster monitor, so that the machine could live in another room (or even building! :). But the budgetis already straining . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message