Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:25:39 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: choice of a new SCSI drive? Message-ID: <199906210225.VAA84639@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Natty Rebel <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net> of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:21:50 EDT." <19990620112150.A19967@ikhala.tcimet.net>
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Natty Rebel writes: > Quoting David Kelly (dkelly@HiWAAY.net): > > The is an "IBM ULTRASTAR 18ES 9.1GB HD U2SCSI 68-PIN 7200RPM LVD". For > > $350 (includes UPS ground shipping) it appears to be a good value. > Just to add more fuel to the fire, www.hypermicro.com has the same drive > for $289.00. Someone else has mentioned them before on one of the lists > and so far I haven't found anyone that beats their price. I have not > purchased anything from them yet, but if I recall the person who mentioned > them had no complaints. I just went to a show in my area (East Lansing, MI) > and some of the vendors were approaching hypermicros prices (the price > difference was $20 - $40) Again this is FYI ... Well shortly after posting checked hsv.forsale and found IBM DDRS 9.1G drives locally for $225 each. Turns out they are HP OEM. I now have two of them. Any known firmware problems with HP-marked drives? Was considering a single $350 drive but when the opportunity to purchase two lesser (not LVD, 512k cache not 2048k) drives I thought it would be fun to play with vinum. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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