From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 04:57:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA08942 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA08937 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id XAA19503; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:27:44 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702131257.XAA19503@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: _big_ IDE disks? In-Reply-To: <199702131235.NAA28350@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 13, 97 01:35:06 pm" To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:27:44 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > > > They actually seem to perform alright (though I'm not doing anything > > terribly heavy on it, and they're _very_ quiet. > > Sounds good, especially the quiet bit, I plan to use one for a > workstation, and I'm very picky about noise... Well, I'll pull the power on the front blower in the chassis and check again, but my gut feeling is that they're quieter than the Hawk 2XLs that we used in our last batch. > You have an iozone result or some such, just for the fun of it ?? I'll run one up for you tomorrow, and send it to -hardware. > Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[