From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 25 22:54:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D6C14C0A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA25424; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:54:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:53:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Chuck Robey Cc: Christopher Masto , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate vs Quantum.. opinions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > I have a situation where I asked for Seagate Barracudas and was > > shipped "QUANTUM ATLAS IV 9 WLS 0707" instead. Before I send them > > back, I want to make sure I'd be making the right decision. > > > > As people here have intimate knowledge of which drives FreeBSD gets > > along best with, and which ones have nasty quirks and firmware bugs, > > should I keep the Atlases or the Barracudas? > > Have you tried the IBM drives? I know you said Seagate and Quantum, but > the IBM drives seem (to me) to be, all at the same time, the cheapest, > coolest, quietest, and very nearly the fastest. Check the prices, if > you go to the places I go to, you're in for a shock. > > I am really starting to be an IBM booster (take a look at all the free > source code available at their site, if you need other reasons). Times > sure have changed, haven't they? They don't seem to be trying to be > such open monopolists these days. Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat it, or some such...Don't kid yourself- they're still into world domination, just keeping a lower profile these days and letting Linus do the running for a while. IBM drives are okay, but like a lot of IBM stuff, sometimes do things gratuitously different. Also, they sometimes die in midlife- unlike Seagate drives which, past initial mortality, seem to go for years. > > > -- > > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net > > > > Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > > > > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 > (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message