Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:54:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, dunham@dunham.org Subject: Re: very slow scsi performance Message-ID: <19980219125408.65174@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980218175802.20776B-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 06:02:55PM -0800 References: <19980219114036.07982@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980218175802.20776B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Wed, 18 February 1998 at 18:02:55 -0800, Tom wrote: > > 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". Good point. I didn't think about that. > I wouldn't touch either Seagate or IBM IDE drives. Western Digital > probably makes the best IDE drives, but that isn't saying much. IDE drives are a different matter, but I think you're still being unfair. A lot of IDE drives differ from SCSI drives only by the interface. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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