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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: nfs speed question
Date: 7 Jan 1996 11:50:41 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cp86h$a94@blob.best.net>
References: <2019011754@f401.n711.z3.ftn> <4cj7lq$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>
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:In article <4cj7lq$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>,
:Marino Ladavac <ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> wrote:
:>Trev Roydhouse (Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org) wrote:
:>
:>: > Don't use Quantum fireball harddisks...
:>
:>: Why not?
:>
:>According to c't magazine test, they have an abysmal SCSI implementation.
:>SCSI subsystem is not capable to transfer data on platter speed from the
:>outside half of the disk. EIDE version of the same disk has no such
:>problems, and is 20% cheaper (c't's words: for 20% more you get 30% less.)
:>
:>/Alby
We've had good luck with 2 and 4 GB Seacrate Barracuda's ... as long
as you keep them cool. On the otherhand, we've lost two quantums in
the last 6 months, the most recent a 2GB Quantum Empire which had a
nasty head crash (two dozen unrecoverable hard errors and about 40
recoverable soft errors).
The barracuda's fly along quite nicely with a PCI SCSI controller...
I see 5 to 6 MBytes/sec through the filesystem reading and writing,
and they appear to be quite reliable.
-Matt
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Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.net>
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