Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:02:17 -0700 From: William Maddox <maddox@CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Triton-2 motherboards, fast IDE disk drives Message-ID: <199607110902.CAA23778@redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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I've decided that I need a dedicated Windows95 box, so I'm planning to move the current SCSI I/O setup on my P90 FreeBSD machine to a new Triton-II P166 and put an IDE drive in the old box to run Windows. I'm looking for recommendations on two components: a new mainboard for the FreeBSD box and a good IDE drive for the Windows box. 1) Mainboard: Triton-II, able to handle a P200, good BIOS. I'm partial to the ATX form factor, because I'm planning to buy a new case and power supply, and it looks like ATX is the future. How does the ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 stack up? Are there any others I should be considering? Have the Triton-II bugs been shaken out yet? 2) IDE disk drive: Something in the 1GB range, quiet, reliable, reasonably fast, and not too expensive. I've heard many recommendations for the Quantum Fireball series drives, and I've seen the 1.2GB QM31280FBA advertised locally for $215, which looks like a good price. On the other hand, I've heard a lot of negative comments on Quantum and Western Digital. What about IBM and Fujitsu? Is there a good source of meaningful and reliable information on comparative disk speeds? The average access times and buffer-to-host data rates that the manufacturers quote on their web pages say absolutely nothing about sustained sequential-access performance. Thanks for any info, Bill Maddox maddox@cs.berkeley.edu
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