Date: 29 Oct 2002 02:03:50 +0000 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ? Message-ID: <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives > > are pretty unreliable though. > > > Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has > ended up with problems which were of course handled by the warranty, but > even then, I still had to reinstall the os and pull a bunch of stuff from > my backups which was a pain to do for each failure. Like I said, just my > personal experience. I don't think the new 8MB cache drives have been out > long enough to actually develop the problems I've seen on WD drives > though. Yes, but my point is that the AA drives are bad, but the BB drives seem good. I have been using them for a while (~1 year) without trouble. I believe the JB drives are much more closely related to the BB drives (ie effectively identical but with a bigger cache). Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding what to buy a PITA :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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