From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 19:24:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20570 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmw@panix.com) Received: from localhost (jmw@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.8.5/8.8.8/PanixU1.4) with ESMTP id UAA03298 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:06:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:06:23 -0500 (EST) From: Blackened To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SCSI Hard drives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Initially, I hope that this message isn't completely off topic for this list. My reasoning was that since everyone here, including myself, runs FreeBSD, and chances are that the percentage of folks who have a SCSI subsystem is higher here, this would be an ideal place to post. If my assumptions were incorrect, then I apologize. It appears that my current hard disk is about to give up the ghost based on the scratchy, grinding, noises that are emanating from it. :P So, it's about time that I look for a replacement drive. My old drive was a Western Digital 4 GB IDE. However, I would like to replace this with a SCSI HD. I currently have a Buslogic/Mylex BT-948 USCSI controller with tape and 2 cdrom devices connected to it. My main question is this. I was hoping to get a few suggestions as to what a good SCSI drive, of about 3 GB (even this is more than enough for what I do, but I'd rather go too big than too small and kick myself on the rear at a later time), without spending a small fortune. My practical budget is about 350-400 bucks. Would anyone be kind enough to offer any suggestions? One other quick question. :) I've heard that SCSI HD's get quite hot, when compared to their ATA counterparts, and was wondering about the validity of this. Is this only a concern with high performance drives that spin at 10k RPM? Or is it a general SCSI thing? Thank you very much for your help, John Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message