Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:42:41 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> Subject: Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED Message-ID: <20050124094241.GA1723@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <200501202326.PAA16070@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <20050120163734.B38962@Denninger.Net> <200501202326.PAA16070@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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# darrylo@soco.agilent.com / 2005-01-20 15:26:21 -0800:
> Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:
>
> > Seagate's have been getting very poor performance reviews of late.....
>
> Do you have any URLs? While I haven't been following disk drives
> closely, I haven't seen anything that points at "very poor" performance
> ("average"/boring performance, yes, but nothing really bad).
I had a Barracuda IV or V that the Samsung I bought as a replacement
outperforms (e. g. opening a Maildir in mutt) by an order of
magnitude. I had to wait *minutes* to get into some of my larger
maildirs with the Seagate whereas now it's a matter of seconds.
A test at xbitlabs.com
(http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/21hdd-160_18.html)
relates large performance differences between Seagate disks to
firmware revisions. If you buy a drive with the right firmware,
you'll get decent performance. If you miss, you'll suffer greatly.
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