Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:56:07 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <199508140326.MAA20188@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950813223920.9552y-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Aug 13, 95 10:41:35 pm
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-Vince- stands accused of saying: >> Micropolis has one of the best track records in the industry for the >> reliability of thier drives. They were the only vendor for a long time >> to pass Auspex's reliability requirements. > > Hmmmm, okay but I thought Micropolis wasn't that big of a player > in the market. Isn't Seagates reliable since they are using the > technology they bought from CDC/Imprimus many years ago atleast on their > WREN and Elite Drives... Seagate make/have made some of the very best, and some of the very worst disks on the market. As Rod observed, their Hawk and Hawk-II drives have proven themselves to be very good units. The Barracuda family are actually reasonably old technology, and weighted their design tradeoffs very heavily in favour of performance. As a consequence, they have (possibly) excessive heat dissipation and noise characteristics, but when they came out, there was nothing that could touch them for speed. Micropolis have been around for a _long_ time; anyone remember the DEC RD53? Whilst that wasn't a particularly good disk, they have a really solid reputation, and (here at least) they offer a 5-year warranty on most of their disks. Rod, while we're on disks; the 4G Conner looks great on price, what's the story on it wrt performance and survivability? I had a bad run with Conner and Quantum a while ago, but I guess it's time to try again 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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