From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 08:50:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA00629 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:50:54 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA00624 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:50:51 -0800 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA14448; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:49:48 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511291649.KAA14448@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Thumbs up? Or down?? (disk recommend) To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger MCSNet) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:49:47 -0600 (CST) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Nov 29, 95 08:33:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > We have a zero failure rate on the Seagate Hawks; not quite as fast > (5400rpm) but very stable and great seek times (sub 10ms). > > The 4.2G drives are relatively inexpensive to boot. We like 'em here. I would generally agree that these are reliable workhorse drives, and the prices currently appear to be substantially cheaper than the Barracudas. NOTE: Check the mailing list archives for mention of these drives. They are red flagged in my memory for some controller compatibility issue, I believe, so you will want to watch out for some particular combination of controller and drive.. However, the units that I've seen and/or used have been solid disks. It's just that most of the things I do are news related and so I'm a performance freak... :-) I'd rather have an 8ms drive than a 9ms drive. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847