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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:51:30 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <326AC912.48E0@OntheNet.com.au> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <u684ivwg3.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> <53re59$a6b@itchy.serv.net> <a107cc$d1316.296@news.goldengate.net> <5461cc$ngi@itchy.serv.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5154 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29651 > >I would never use a Barracuda in a News Server. They run way too hot. > >Buy the cheaper Hawk for a News Server. It won't burn out like the > >"better" Barracuda. > > That's what fans are for. Nothing like a fan blowing over the top of > your news server to keep it happy. There is a distinct performance > difference between the Barracuda and the Hawk which is exactly why we > ARE using it in a news server. We run 4 Hawks in a news/www proxy server. Apart from the p/supply fan, I have put another 3 fans in/on the box to move air around the drives to keep them cool. When "expire" is running, they work pretty hard!!! One problem we have seen is the occasional SCSI bus/drive hang. The interesting part is that it doesn't always happen when the system is at it's most busy! I've tried numerous combinations of bus termination, different cables, etc. to try and fix the problem but to no avail. Sometime the system will run for 2 weeks without a problem and other times it falls over a day after the reboot. Oh for a log-based file system to save on those fsck's ... Tony