Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:15:05 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950823141235.3064R-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508182215.PAA27879@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > >> Micropolis has one of the best track records in the industry for the > > > >> reliability of thier drives. They were the only vendor for a long time > > > >> to pass Auspex's reliability requirements. > > > > > > > > Hmmmm, okay but I thought Micropolis wasn't that big of a player > > > > in the market. Isn't Seagates reliable since they are using the > > > > technology they bought from CDC/Imprimus many years ago atleast on their > > > > WREN and Elite Drives... > > > > > > Seagate make/have made some of the very best, and some of the very worst > > > disks on the market. As Rod observed, their Hawk and Hawk-II drives > > > have proven themselves to be very good units. The Barracuda family are > > > actually reasonably old technology, and weighted their design tradeoffs > > > very heavily in favour of performance. As a consequence, they have > > > (possibly) excessive heat dissipation and noise characteristics, but > > > when they came out, there was nothing that could touch them for speed. > > > > Hmmm okay but what drives can touch the barracuda's in terms of > > speed? > > A hand full or two, basically any 7200RPM drive on the market is in > this ``class'' of drives. I am selling Quantum, Quantum/DEC, Micropolis, > and Fujitsi drives that can all compete with the barracuda. The barracuda > was just first to market with this level of performance (and when you ship > product that dies being first to market can be quite bad for you, as it > was for Seagate this time). Hmmm, Is there like any advantage of the 1024k cache buffer on the Seagate Barracuda's? > > > Micropolis have been around for a _long_ time; anyone remember the DEC RD53? > > > Whilst that wasn't a particularly good disk, they have a really solid > > > reputation, and (here at least) they offer a 5-year warranty on most of > > > their disks. > > > > That's true but like it seems like wasn't CDC one of the drives that > > was like a industry standard? > > CDC was one of the former premier drive manufactures when they were in > business, yes. But I will say that this went to hell in a hand basket > once segate took over the operation. Hmmm, I used to have a Priam drive but how are the quality of their drives because mines stopped working and when I sent it back to them, they went bankrupt and I never saw my drive again... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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