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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!shellx.best.com!blob.best.net!not-for-mail From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: nfs speed question Date: 7 Jan 1996 11:50:41 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com) Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4cp86h$a94@blob.best.net> References: <2019011754@f401.n711.z3.ftn> <4cj7lq$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blob.best.net :In article <4cj7lq$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at>, :Marino Ladavac <ladavac@aut.alcatel.at> wrote: :>Trev Roydhouse (Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org) wrote: :> :>: > Don't use Quantum fireball harddisks... :> :>: Why not? :> :>According to c't magazine test, they have an abysmal SCSI implementation. :>SCSI subsystem is not capable to transfer data on platter speed from the :>outside half of the disk. EIDE version of the same disk has no such :>problems, and is 20% cheaper (c't's words: for 20% more you get 30% less.) :> :>/Alby We've had good luck with 2 and 4 GB Seacrate Barracuda's ... as long as you keep them cool. On the otherhand, we've lost two quantums in the last 6 months, the most recent a 2GB Quantum Empire which had a nasty head crash (two dozen unrecoverable hard errors and about 40 recoverable soft errors). The barracuda's fly along quite nicely with a PCI SCSI controller... I see 5 to 6 MBytes/sec through the filesystem reading and writing, and they appear to be quite reliable. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc. <dillon@best.net> [always include a portion of the original email in any response!]