From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 16:46:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28454 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from global.com (global.com [206.40.50.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28248 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:45:53 GMT (envelope-from gopu@global.com) Message-ID: <353BDD89.361D05FD@global.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:43:05 -0700 From: Gopakumar H Pillai Organization: Global Automation, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI 18GB References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Was planning to set up a low cost file server. Searched a lot for some reviews about 18GB hard disks. Couldn't find any. So looks like, I am going for 2 9GB Cheetah hard disks form Seagate Technology, 10,000 RPM. --Gopu Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Gopakumar H Pillai wrote: > > > I am planning to buy Seagate SCSI 18GB ST118273N for our FreeBSD 2.2.5 > > Server. The SCSI controller is the Buslogic PCI BT-948 Ultra Fast. > > What are you planning on putting on this disk? If it's anything but > archival (ie, infrequently used) storage your thruput to it will be > horrendous. I'd suggest a 4x4GB disk array striped with ccd or driven by a > DPT SCSI controller. This way you can have 4 seeks running simultaneously > instead of one. > > > Is this a right choice? Looking at the price performance ratio, this was > > good. Any different opinion? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message