Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:00:38 -0700 (PDT) From: BURTON SAMPLEY <bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970808074206.3907C-100000@haywire.csuhayward.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970807215005.4224A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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I just had to take a small amount of bandwidth to throw in my $20.00 (2 cents adjusted for inflation) I presently have a WD 1.6 & 3.1 EIDE drives. I was using 3.0 current, but recently down-graded to 2.2.2-R. I would love to give these drives the 'roof test' and go to SCSI but I have this common problem among college students (called 'empty wallet disease'). FYI - stay away from WD!!! I know too many people that have run into problems with these drives, myself included. My father has a 1.2 drive which had to be replaced by WD when it was only 8 months old due to media failure. My 1.6 drive was also only 8 months old when I had a similar problem. Both drives were purchased from different retailers about 1 year apart. Even though the drives were replaced, I just can not trust WD again. As for the comparison of EIDE and SCSI, wouldn't make world times be a better benchmark? With a P5-133 (on an ASUS P/I P55T2P4), 128MB 60NS EDO RAM, 1.6 & 3.1 EIDE drives, the last time I did make world (around July 1, with nothing else running) it took about 5.5 hours. I seem to recall faster times from people with similar hardware but using SCSI disks. To me, make world is more of a 'real world' type of measurement for the drive. Burton
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