Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:40:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinions on IDE Hard Drives Message-ID: <19981205114020.J603@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981204115213.A36131@oit.umass.edu>; from Greg Pavelcak on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 11:52:13AM -0500 References: <19981204115213.A36131@oit.umass.edu>
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On Friday, 4 December 1998 at 11:52:13 -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > > Reading several FreeBSD mailing lists gives me the impression > that at least some people think IDE drives are just fine for your > average user. However, although I have seen specific brands of > SCSI drives discussed, I don't recall seeing recommendations on > IDE hard drives; hence the purpose of this posting is to solicit > your opinions on reliable, fast ide hard drives. With Christmas > on the horizon, I just may be able to score some new hardware. > > Of course, if your view is that IDE is just not worth it, please > post as well. When I went looking for IDE drives earlier this year, I based my search on the test results from the German c't magazine, which showed that the IBM DeskStar drives were the fastest in a real-life mix, pushing 10 MB/s. I now have two of the drives (IBM-DHEA-36480 and IBM-DHEA-38451), and I'm certainly happy enough with them. They're much faster than my SCSI drives. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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