From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jun 20 19:26: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE44314C4F for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-107.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.107]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA02235 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:26:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA84639 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:25:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199906210225.VAA84639@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: choice of a new SCSI drive? In-reply-to: Message from Natty Rebel of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:21:50 EDT." <19990620112150.A19967@ikhala.tcimet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:25:39 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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