Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:42:56 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: "ro0t" <root@unixhideout.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: any idea what this means? Message-ID: <20020625204255625.AAA740@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <CFEBLHJHLOMLJJPJBALJMECFCAAA.root@unixhideout.com> References: <20020625201004567.AAA767@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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On 25 Jun 2002, at 16:25, ro0t boldly uttered: > Well when i bought the motherboard (Abit KT7A-RAID) i had plans for raid but > couldnt afford to buy 2 identical drives at that time. (i really still cant > lol) So at the time i bought the raid motherboard and disabled raid. but > seeing as i _need_ a drive now anyway i found this site > http://www.nexthardwareshop.com/ thru pricewatch.com. Lots of stuff fairly > cheap. They have some good deals on HDs (especially smaller/older ones) but the rest of the stuff doesn't impress me as being that unusually low. When I want truly cheap deals on stuff I either make smart bids on ebay merchandise, or go to one of the various surplus vendors. > I just dont know what brand. Im pretty sure im going to get another > seagate. I had a western digital fail on me, and i had many maxtors fail. > (over 3 in 4 years) However i must admit i could get two 120 gigabyte maxtor > hard drives for ony a little over 200 dollars at that site and raid them > out... *tempting* Im pretty stuck at what im going to do. But i would rather > have longevity, and stability so i may get two 80 or 60 gig seagates. :) There are a lot of differences between particular series within the same manufacturer. Seagate has made a lot of junk, it's just that they make some nice drives too - ie SCSI server drives. In IDE, their "medalist" IDE drives were junky, and their modern "barracuda" IDE drives are pretty good. Bear in mind that Maxtor has been through various changes. In the old days, Maxtor made great stuff - they were the first company to break the 5400 rpm barrier with their "Magic" MXT 6300 rpm SCSI drives, and they were state-of-the-art back then. (before Seagate introduced the Barracuda series) A few yrs later they were going through hard times, sold themselves to a Korean conglomerate, muddled around for a while. Eventually their stuff improved, and they bought Quantum, gaining lots of excellent technology, and the very highly- regarded Atlas 7200 and 10K rpm SCSI series. Modern Maxtor stuff seems to get decent reviews. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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