Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 06:18:15 -0500 From: Stari Karp <starikarp@yandex.com> To: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hd firecuda Message-ID: <1513509495.32624.1.camel@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <20171217112428.150d8041.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> References: <1513447749.62024.1.camel@yandex.com> <20171217112428.150d8041.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
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On Sun, 2017-12-17 at 11:24 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:09:09 -0500 > Stari Karp <starikarp@yandex.com> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I am running FreeBSD on iMac 11,1 and my hard drive is going down. > > I > > am looking for the new one. First I look for the same one which is > > 80$ and I found Seagate 2.0TB FireCuda Solid State Hybrid drive > > which > > is less expensive than SSD drive and for me will be good choice: > > Specifications: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST2000DX002 > > / > > > > I do not know if will be problem with FreeBSD. On computer is the > > only > > OS FreeBSD. > > > > I write this on a machine running FreeBSD 10 with a FireCuda 2TB > drive, > but the 2.5" version. The drive works but its behaviour was not what > I > expected. > > The SSD part is too small from my point of view. The drive is really > fast when working on a project for which all fits into the 8GB SSD > memory my drive has. It becomes a totally different story when > compiling > the kernel or installing large ports. Even a simple 'exit' from a > shell > can take a minute when the shell I want to return was moved to the > swap partition. Yes, this one minute is sixty seconds. The same is > true > when writing large amounts of data to the drive. The drive becomes > slow, very, very slow. > > When the data to be read are not in the SSD part, the drive behaves > like a normal HD when you are not writing large data sets at the same > moment of time. > > This is also my second drive. The first one died after less than 15TB > of data had been transferred. Of course, Seagate exchanged it for > free. > > Both drives showed the same behaviour. > > With other words, it is a double sided sword. > > Erich Thank you. I have bad experience with Seagate, this is my second HD. I decided for 1TB or 2 TB Western Digital 1.0TB WD Black Hard Disk Drive 3.5-Inch | SATA 6.0Gb/s | 7200RPM | 64MB Cache https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD1003FZEX/ I do not like invest in SSD drive because iMac 1,1 is old and who knows how long will be good and the next one will be PC. Thank you.
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