Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 02:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball, any good? Message-ID: <199508280940.CAA00575@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508280816.KAA15846@nietzsche> from "Marc van Kempen" at Aug 28, 95 10:16:22 am
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> > > Hi, > > I can get a nice deal on a quantum fireball 1080S. Are they any good > performancewise? Any known flaws with respect to FreeBSD (2.0.5)? > It will be connected to a NCR53c825 on a Dell 90Mhz pentium. These are Quantums low end PC class of disk drives designed to compete in the price diving PC market. They are not known for performance, or at least, not in the normal since of Quantum drives. Here is a break down of the series of Quantum disks from low performace to high performance. (For current production models, I have dropped the older Empire and ProDrive series of drives as they are no longer a production item) Maverick 14mS 3600RPM Trailblazer 14mS 4500RPM Fireball 12mS 5400RPM Lightning 11mS 4500RPM Capella 8.5mS 5400RPM Grand Prix 8.6mS 7200RPM Atlas 8mS 7200RPM Of these drives I mostly sell Capella and Atlas class drives (500MB to 4Gbytes). The DEC/Quantum DSP3xxx series of drives are really Capella class drives, but they have now dropped out of production, I really liked them, but now am again searching for drive models in the 500 and 1G sizes that meet my performance and reliablity standards :-(. I don't know what your ``nice deal'' is, but I can sell you a pair of: XX. BAS DEC3053L Dec/Quantum 535MB 3.5"x1", SCSI-II, 5400 RPM, 9.5mS $ 195.00 Or if I can still get it (Friday showed 2 in stock) the 1.07G 7200RPM 8mS atlas drive is a real little screamer for performance. A bit on the spendy side though, at $770.00. I don't have current pricing or avaliabilty status on the VP31110, that is the 1G Capella drive, should be cost effective as that is a new production series (about 3 months old now). Go visit the Quantum web page, http://www.quantum.com, you'll notice that the Maverick->Lightning class drives are under the PC section, and what I advocate (Capella->Atlas) are in the Workstation/Server pages. I do _not_ recommend the Grand Prix, it is simply there as a data point. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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