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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc74!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: nfs speed question Date: 8 Jan 1996 16:20:59 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4crg9b$nd8@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <2019011754@f401.n711.z3.ftn> <4cj7lq$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> <4cp86h$a94@blob.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc74.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Matt Dillon (dillon@best.com) wrote: : :In article <4cj7lq$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 Yes, but how *do* you keep them cool? (Hint: you put them in an external SCSI case, at most two of them per case for four, and then ventilate the be-Jesus out of them--children, don't do this to your minitowers.) Up to now, I've had no problems with Seagate Hawks which are more alike the originally mentioned Fireballs (both are 5400 rpm designs.) Get up to 40-ish centigrade and stay there, even in a run-off-the-mill midtower without any exceptional cooling, and all ISA/VLB slots occupied. /Alby