Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:47:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Which IBM IDE disk? Message-ID: <19981010184749.Y3369@freebie.lemis.com>
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6 months ago I bought an IBM DHEA 36480 (6 GB Ultra DMA IDE drive, also nicknamed "Deskstar 5"), with which I have been well pleased. Now it looks as if another drive is dying, and I'm looking around for a second IBM IDE drive. Well, the Deskstar 5s are gone, and the Deskstar 8s which replaced them are on their way out, and now there's the Deskstar 16. I end up with the choice between a DHEA-38541 (DS 8) or a DTTA-350840 (DS 16), both 8.4 decimal GB. The DHEA costs SGP $338 in Singapore, the DTTA costs $369. I've looked at the IBM web site, and I can't find any significant difference between the three series. They all have a 9.5 ms average positioning time, the same average latency, the same rotational speed, a 512 kB buffer from which the firmware steals a chunk, the same interface, and documents which are laid out completely differently just to confuse me. Does anybody know a reason I should shell out $31 more for the DTTA? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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