From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 21:17:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA11032 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:17:23 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA11020 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:17:17 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA02331; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:17:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:17:11 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199511290517.AAA02331@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thumbs up? Or down?? (disk recommend) Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <49glj1$14f7@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >> Greetings! >> I was planning on picking up some MC3243 drives (4.3G, 8.?mS) >> and wondered if any have comments pro or con? >> Thanx! >Exec-PC just returned a boatload of these to the manufacturer. Tooo many >failures under moderate to heavy use. Buy a Barracuda instead and put a big >fan on it. Screw that, we have about 80% failure on Barracuda's we have so far. Shoot for the Connor 4207S, runs cold, 7200RPM, fast as snot, works perfect so far. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/