Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:50:28 -0700 From: pete@kesa26.Kesa.COM (Pete Delaney) To: julian@ref.tfs.com Cc: jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pete@rahul.net, pete@kesa26.Kesa.COM Subject: Re: S.O.S -2.1Stable and ASUSP54TP4 Message-ID: <9508310150.AA04607@kesa26.Kesa.COM>
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Julian: > since Seagate bought all those other places, > and they have several design/build groups you have to be sure which group > the drive came from.. > > I BELIEVE that drives that come from what WAS the CDC disk section > (did that go via Imprimis?) are ok.. Nice to know the CDC drives are ok; Thanks. > HAWK sounds like it should come from that division.. > they always liked bird names.. > (e.g the 10MB HAWK drive, the 90MB Phoenix, etc...) > (never saw a VULTURE drive but they'd have been a good one to > sell to government ) Perhaps they are desiged in Phoenix and manufactored in Singapore. I think Quantum is moving some of it's manufactoring to Singapore. The 4GB HAWK is very similar to the 4GB Barracuda. The HAWK is made in Singapore and I believe the Barracuda is also. I've never thought of Seagate as a good manufactor, I was surprised to hear that the 4GB Barracuda was a good drive. After I bought a 4GB HAWK the guys at Auspex thought it was a better choice that the 4GB Micropolus. The only difference that I know of between the two drives is that the 4GB Barracuda has a slightly faster access time; 9ms as I recall. Up to now I've had no problems with the 4GB Hawk, Time will tell. It runs cool enough that you don't even need a fan in the SPARCStation-1 (or -2) pizza box. -pete
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