From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 12:22:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB0137B401 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yIvK-000FDy-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:22:18 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 65308E6F; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:19:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:19:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <20011029211924.A5184@raggedclown.net> References: <20011029145028.N51234-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <20011029145028.N51234-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>; from lists@natserv.com on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:53:28PM -0500 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 On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:53:28PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > I would like to buy IDE HDDs for RAID, 40 Gb. Which IDE HDD brand is more > > reliable? Any useful links, your experience? For the moment we have chosen > > IBM Ericsson. > > Catchin up with my lists... > Take a look at storagereview.com > I look at this site at least 3 to 4 times a week. Lots of info about HDs > including reliability, performance and recently even reviews on noise. > > In particular try and read the forums regularly. > > As for those asking why SCSI disks are better it is usually because > components and manufacturing of SCSI drives is better. > > SCSI drives are usually so much better than SCSI that almost 3 years ago I > bought some used SCSI drives for $75 and those drives have survived longer > than several brand new IDEs (IBM and Quantum). My only two issues with > SCSI are the price and the noise. > Yes, why are they so noisy ? I suspect little effort is put into them in this direction on the grounds they are for the most part used in servers in isolated locations ? Just a guess.. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message