Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:54:08 -0000 From: Thomas Wolf <tw@wsf.at> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives. Message-ID: <20041122215408.gjzs36hxmsoo00@.mailhost.wsf.at>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> schrieb: > FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote: > > Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are: > > > Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8 > > I have one of these, and I am really impressed by its performance. I > added one to my computer, which came with a Maxtor 6Y080L0. My main > disk intensive operation is creating the CTM deltas (as in CTM which is > an alternative to CVSUP for people behind unfriendly firewalls). The > performance difference was somewhat collosal, as in something like 3 > times faster. To be honest, I am still at a loss to explain why the > Seagate did so very much better - maybe it is the 8M cache as compared > to the 2M cache. The Seagate 7200.7 had similar performance to a > Seagate 160MHz SCSI drive that I have on another computer. Ah, please tell me more about it, is this a ST3120827AS? (I would need the exact PartNo.) What controller dou you have and finally, on which version of FreeBSD? Many thanks in advance Thomas -- Thomas Wolf Wiener Software Fabrik Dubas u. Wolf GMBH 1050 Wien, Mittersteig 4
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