From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 29 16:10:26 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA28215 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:10:26 -0700 Received: from rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.22.60]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA28189 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 16:10:17 -0700 Received: from [130.83.177.7] (ppp07.stud.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.177.7]) by rs1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.10/8.6.4) with SMTP id BAA19756; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:09:59 +0200 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:10:08 +0200 To: -Vince- , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: beckmann@powermac.stud.th-darmstadt.de (Michael Beckmann) Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 15:56 Uhr 18.8.1995, -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.