From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 18 18:21:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12430 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA12326 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y5LKH-0005Pg-00; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:03:01 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Greg Lehey cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: very slow scsi performance In-Reply-To: <19980219114036.07982@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > I forwarded a message to a friend who works at a large computer > manufacturer. Here's his reply. He asked that the name of the > manufacturer not be revealed. ... > > FWIW, IBM isn't perfect. We've had some serious firmware issues with > > them at times, though Seagate is no better, and the 1.6 GB drive we're > > now using as our smallest was initially rather fragile (while the 1.4 > > and 2.1 were solid). This, of course, only applies to the 2.5-inch > > drives, but it's an indication that IBM doesn't walk on water. Based > > upon what I see internally (and I don't see everything), I'd choose > > IBM first, Fujitsu second, Quantum third, and Seagate fourth, but that > > ranking could easily be scrambled if you based it upon individual > > products, rather than overall records. Uhh.. we are talking about SCSI drives here, not IDE. "Large computer manufactures" put cheapo IDE junk in PCs. All the drive manufactures build cheap IDE drives for such "large computer manufacturers". I wouldn't touch either Seagate or IBM IDE drives. Western Digital probably makes the best IDE drives, but that isn't saying much. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message