Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:01:22 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wanna buy an EIDE harddisk ... 5400 or 7200 for home use (noise) Message-ID: <20000103110122.A51451@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Hi ! In the last german C't magazine they tested the Maxtor 92041U4 Diamond Max VL20 19541 MB, 5400 U/min, 512K cache, 3.5"/1" Random Access: 12,3/8,7ms Sustained Transferrate read: 12,9/19,9/24,8 MByte/sec (min/aver/max) Sustained Transferrate write: 7,12/19,8/24,8 MByte/sec (min/aver/max) weighted average: 12,3 MByte/sec Noise (no access): 28,4/0,7 (dBA/Sone) Noise (access) : 34,4/1,5 (dBA/Sone) This drive costs DM 355 (~ $180) Now I saw in the Magazine, that there is a similar drive available, with 2 MB cache and another drive which has additionally 7200 U/min. Does somebody know the following drives ? U92720U8, 27.2 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 440.- (~ $220) U92732U8, 27.3 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 7200 U/min DM 460.- (~ $230) U93652U8, 36.5 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 585.- (~ $290) U94098U8, 40.0 GB, 9ms, 2MB cache, 5400 U/min DM 635.- (~ $315) Do you think, the large drives (36.5 or 40 GB) will run under FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.0 current well ??? I have a Tyan Titan Pro mainboard and last year I flashed a new BIOS. I think I would have to look, if my BIOS supports the drives and Ultra DMA 4 or for what things do I have to look ? Sorry for the maybe dumb questions, but I'm used to buy/use SCSI hardware, but this time I want to buy not too expensive hardware and not so noisy EIDE drives, to finally get rid of 4 harddisks in my tower. SCSI remains for CD-ROM, Burner, SCSI Tape and one exchangeble SCSI disk to try other BSD, Linux, Solaris OS's on demand. Thanks for any recommendation. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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