Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:28:53 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: ulf@Alameda.net, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc & CAM: strange diagnostic Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980930232853.00712a74@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <19980930170853.A26485@Alameda.net> References: <199809302231.PAA03681@dingo.cdrom.com> <xzp7lyliwcy.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no> <199809302231.PAA03681@dingo.cdrom.com>
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At 05:08 PM 9/30/98 -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:31:08PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> > One more argument in favor of IBM disks is that they reputedly run >> > cooler and quieter than Quantum or Seagate disks. >> >> I can't speak for the 7200 and 10000rpm IBM disks, as I have never been >> able to source them when I've been considering them. I can say that >> IBM go to considerable lengths to make their cooling data available >> (see the product pages for their drives), and they do appear to be >> comparable if not somewhat better than the competition. >> >> 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. > >I just replaced a Barracuda 9GB disk with an IBM 18G and the drive >is very much cooler. I will put some IBM 10K 9G in later tonight. Cooler is good, but what about long term reliability? UIUC either had a string of bad drives or perhaps the quality has improved with IBM. Noisy drives bother me and get me thinking about thermodynamics. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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