From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 0:51:49 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 0B52D37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (12-233-156-170.client.attbi.com [12.233.156.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D69C43E4A for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6A7mHVW000460; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6A7m9HE000459; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:48:09 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Matthew Dillon , Terry Lambert , Erik Trulsson , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <20020710074809.GA240@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Robey , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Matthew Dillon , Terry Lambert , Erik Trulsson , FreeBSD Hackers List References: <20020710011938.GA1198@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020709212945.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709212945.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org> 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 Thus spake Chuck Robey : > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, David Schultz wrote: > > > Thus spake Chuck Robey : > > > I just bought that new Fujitsu Ultra160 > > > screamer, fastest disk in the West (3.5ms access, 15K rotation). Eat my > > > dust! > > > > Given the reliability of Fujitsu disks I've seen, there's a high > > probability that your disk will be worth no more than its weight > > in dust before too very long... :P > > I've had excellent luck with my previous two, *and* they come with a 5 > year warranty (I guess they have to overcome some bad press, which you > sound like you've either read or written). That's funny. Fujitsu used to be known for having terrible warranties and cheap drives that could sometimes barely read from some sections of the disk. I last saw one in 1996; I sent in for two replacements during the course of the 1-year warranty period before the poor fellow who owned the drive gave up and went with a different brand. But to be fair, I have heard that Western Digital drives also used to have problems, back in the early 90's when the company was struggling financially. Maybe Fujitsu has changed as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message