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In <5anhot$t5@shellx.best.com> logic@best.com (Henry Kwan) writes:

>Seagate Barracuda 9's are state of the art now but by this time
>next year, Barracuda 18's will be available at the same price.  So why is
>Best skimping?

(Speaking for myself...the best but not BEST.)

ISPs who rush to buy a bunch of 9-gig Barracudas almost always regret
the decision later.  These drives are slow -- painfully slow.  Machines
that rely on them all but crawl.  When Barracuda 18s are the alleged
state-of-the-art, that will be a good time to buy the 9-gig drives.

(I hear though that Seagate has just introduced a faster 9-gig drive.
About 6 months from now, when any firmware bugs have been fixed, ISPs
should consider it.)

I have stayed away from the big drives.  As a result none of my users
complain of slow machines...instead, they complain about not having
enough disk space.  You get one or the other, unless you pay enough to
get both.  Disk drives are cheap, so long as you don't actually expect
them to do fast I/O.  Then you get to pay for bus speed and processor
speed too, and for labor and system/network overhead of doing nightly
backups to tape.

Or you get to gripe on ba.internet about slow shell machines and one
months' lost files.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>