Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:21:38 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc & CAM: strange diagnostic Message-ID: <199810010221.UAA22072@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:56:19 MDT." <199809302256.QAA02415@panzer.plutotech.com>
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Hi, > [ trimmed -current off the CC list ] > > Mike Smith wrote... > > > One more argument in favor of IBM disks is that they reputedly run > > > cooler and quieter than Quantum or Seagate disks. > > ... > > OTOH, we have been running a 9GB Seagate Cheetah in Freefall holding > > the CVS repository, and despite being far and away the busiest disk in > > the system it has kept its cool quite well. > > That's because it's a second generation Cheetah. The second generation > Cheetahs run a good bit cooler, I think. They're also faster than the > 10,000 RPM IBM disks. (the first generation Cheetahs were slower than the > IBM disks) I just purchased 3 cheetah 10000rpm LVD drives and am quite pleased, they run MUCH cooler than the older ones. After an afternoon of buildworlds they were barely warm to the touch! -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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