From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 25 20:18:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C70415ACD for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05809; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:15:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:15:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Christopher Masto Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate vs Quantum.. opinions? In-Reply-To: <19990825225928.A24365@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > I have a situation where I asked for Seagate Barracudas and was > shipped "QUANTUM ATLAS IV 9 WLS 0707" instead. Before I send them > back, I want to make sure I'd be making the right decision. > > As people here have intimate knowledge of which drives FreeBSD gets > along best with, and which ones have nasty quirks and firmware bugs, > should I keep the Atlases or the Barracudas? Have you tried the IBM drives? I know you said Seagate and Quantum, but the IBM drives seem (to me) to be, all at the same time, the cheapest, coolest, quietest, and very nearly the fastest. Check the prices, if you go to the places I go to, you're in for a shock. I am really starting to be an IBM booster (take a look at all the free source code available at their site, if you need other reasons). Times sure have changed, haven't they? They don't seem to be trying to be such open monopolists these days. > -- > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net > > Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD/i386 (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD/Alpha ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message