Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:57:44 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI vs. DMA33.. Message-ID: <19981111085531.A9611@tidalwave.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981111014829.00a6eee0@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 01:50:22AM -0500 References: <98Nov11.134648jst.21907@ns.isi.co.jp> <4.1.19981111014829.00a6eee0@genesis.ispace.com>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 01:50:22AM -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > So I'd say they're relatively close in performance for my A/V requirements > and all, individual results will vary. Many people say Maxtor drives are > crap, but I have had no problems with mine and they've been burnt in, > dropped, thrown, and various other things. Well, the _really_ crappy drives were the old Maxtor 7000 series, which went into prduction shortly after Maxtor bought MiniScribe (it's a MiniScribe design, technically). I've heard of people who've had scores of 7120ATs die on them! But thankfully, the CrystalMax and DiamondMax are better....completely redesigned mechanism and electronics. Also, the 7000s were much slower than, say, a Quantum LPS120AT (in the 7120's case) or a Fireball I 540MB in the 7540AV's case...the *Max drives are, as you've noticed, nice and fast, though. As for me, I have a Seagate Medalist Pro 9140, and so far, I like it. It runs REALLY HOT, but it's fast and fairly quiet, and works great even though I had to hack ide_pci.c to disable UDMA: st-lcremean:~ $ dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=20 20+0 records in 20+0 records out 20971520 bytes transferred in 2.109357 secs (9942139 bytes/sec) Woooo. -- Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | mailto:lcremean@tidalwave.net http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net | Powered by FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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