From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 8 17:12:21 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA17123 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 17:12:21 -0700 Received: from rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.22.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA17117 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 17:12:12 -0700 Received: from [130.83.177.12] (ppp12.stud.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.177.12]) by rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.10/8.6.4) with SMTP id CAA17643; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 02:11:52 +0200 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 02:11:55 +0200 To: -Vince- From: beckmann@powermac.stud.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 03:40 Uhr 30.8.1995, -Vince- wrote: >> > Hmmm okay but what drives can touch the barracuda's in terms of >> >speed? >> >> The IBM DFHS line of drives, absolutely. 7 ms access, 7200 rpm, MTBF >> 1.000.000 h. Available as both Fast - and Wide SCSI-II drives. >> >> I would always prefer these drives and not buy a Barracuda, since I have >> made very good experiences with IBM drives in both reliability and speed. > > Are these DeskStar or FireStar lines of drives? Certainly not the Deskstar. I have the Deskstar datasheet here, they are pretty good, but not IBMs High End drives. The deskstar are rated at 500.000 h MTBF, 5400 rpm and 10.5 ms av. seek; available with 540 MB and 1 GB capacity. BTW, according to recent tests in c't (German computer magazine) the DFHS drives from IBM outperform the Barracudas slightly. In the test only one of the Barracuras was a bit faster than the IBM DFHS; it was a Wide SCSI model. IBMs Wide SCSI drives weren't tested. Regards, and sorry it took me so long to answer, Michael