From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 09:42:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF4216A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smradoch.ath.cx (r2g224.chello.upc.cz [62.245.70.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93ED543D5C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:42:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neuhauser@chello.cz) Received: by smradoch.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 56D021F87BED; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:42:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:42:41 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Darryl Okahata Message-ID: <20050124094241.GA1723@isis.wad.cz> References: <20050120163734.B38962@Denninger.Net> <200501202326.PAA16070@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501202326.PAA16070@mina.soco.agilent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Karl Denninger Subject: Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:42:44 -0000 # darrylo@soco.agilent.com / 2005-01-20 15:26:21 -0800: > Karl Denninger 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. -- FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE 10:19AM up 3:02, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00