Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 18:26:30 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does "make -j4 buildworld" actually help anybody? Message-ID: <19980711182630.64575@supersex.com> In-Reply-To: <199807101711.KAA29210@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 10:11:15AM -0700 References: <199807101655.JAA29491@rah.star-gate.com> <199807101711.KAA29210@austin.polstra.com>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 10:11:15AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > What sort of disks do you have ? > > IBM DDRS-34560W. These are the 4.5 GB version of the so-called > Ultrastar 9ES SCSI disks. Justin recommended them to me, and they > seem quite fast and nice so far. I have the 9 GB version (DDRS-39130W) and its probably twice as slow as the quantum II's and III's on the same machine. It is cheap, tho, the 9GB model is half again as slim as the Quantums, its never given me any problems (unlike the quantums which have suffered 3 failures - including a replacement unit which failed to work out of the box) and runs very cool. *Much* cheaper than the quantums. [...] > > Anyway, despite all that, I think they are good disks. They are perfect if you need to fill a tower with a lot of drives and put it on the web but they are not speed demons. > > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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