From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 15 20:03:02 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA29107 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:03:02 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29101 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:03:01 -0700 Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA232732178; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:02:59 -0700 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA140642177; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:02:57 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA165102177; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:02:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199508160302.AA165102177@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:02:56 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > two sets of 3053's stripped would be incredible....especially at > under 40 cents a megabyte A potentially good deal right now is the Quantum Lightning 730S (~699MB formatted, 4500RPM, 11ms avg. seek). The internal version is selling for about $230 (APS Technologies), which translates into around $0.32/MB. With a 1542CF controller, I get around 2MB/sec sustained transfers (iozone results have been appended). Not great, but not bad, either. For more info, see: http://www.quantum.com/products/lightng.html I've got no connections with Quantum, aside from being a customer. The only downside is that the 730S has only a 2yr warranty. I guess I'll find out what the reliability is like. -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the little green men that have been following him all day. =============================================================================== IOZONE: Performance Test of Sequential File I/O -- V2.01 (10/21/94) By Bill Norcott Operating System: FreeBSD 2.x -- using fsync() IOZONE: auto-test mode MB reclen bytes/sec written bytes/sec read 1 512 1278264 4329604 1 1024 1636801 9586980 1 2048 1838599 11184810 1 4096 1838599 12201611 1 8192 1838599 12201611 2 512 1931190 7255012 2 1024 1646843 9586980 2 2048 1988410 11671106 2 4096 2080895 12201611 2 8192 2064888 13421772 4 512 1995802 7064090 4 1024 2122019 8801162 4 2048 2164802 9942053 4 4096 2113665 10324440 4 8192 2138927 10526880 8 512 1962964 1973790 8 1024 2029757 2014524 8 2048 2122019 2014524 8 4096 2101256 1977425 8 8192 2084935 1952257 16 512 2051082 2035529 16 1024 2218474 2010752 16 2048 2225371 2033601 16 4096 2218474 2035529 16 8192 2225371 2072860