From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 9 09:39:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA10848 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from gw1.asacomputers.com (root@gw1.asacomputers.com [204.69.220.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10831 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kedar@asacomputers.com) Received: by gw1.asacomputers.com id GAA12103; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 06:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19971009163607.014c366c@gw1> X-Sender: rajadnya@gw1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 09:36:07 -0700 To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kedar Subject: Re: Assembling new machine Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 05:48 PM 10/8/97 -0700, you wrote: >ST32171N, which I haven't found but did see a ST32272N which appears to >be an ultra version of that. And, of course, several people have The 32272 and the 32171 are both ultra Barracudas. The former is a new line from Seagate. A bit more space, less power consumption and less platters. >My requirements for disk drives are: affordable, reliable, reasonably fast >and large. You might also want to consider the ST32155W (the N, I have not seen in a while), ultra-wide Hawk from Seagate. If you do use Barracudas, as someone mentioned, you do not want to skimp on lots of cooling. It also helps to use up an external 5 1/4 bay and use one of those fan-kits that fit in place of the bay-cover. Kedar.