hd firecuda

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 06:18:15 -0500
Stari Karp <starikarp at yandex.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-12-17 at 11:24 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:09:09 -0500
> > Stari Karp <starikarp at yandex.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I am running FreeBSD on iMac 11,1 and my hard drive is going down.
> > > I
> > > am looking for the new one. First I  look for the same one which
> > > is 80$ and I found Seagate 2.0TB FireCuda Solid State Hybrid drive
> > > which
> > > is less expensive than SSD drive and for me will be good choice:
> > > Specifications:
> > > https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST2000DX002 /
> > > 
> > > I do not know if will be problem with FreeBSD. On computer is the
> > > only
> > > OS FreeBSD.
> > >   
> > 
> > I write this on a machine running FreeBSD 10 with a FireCuda 2TB
> > drive,
> > but the 2.5" version. The drive works but its behaviour was not what
> > I
> > expected.
> > 
> > The SSD part is too small from my point of view. The drive is really
> > fast when working on a project for which all fits into the 8GB SSD
> > memory my drive has. It becomes a totally different story when
> > compiling
> > the kernel or installing large ports. Even a simple 'exit' from a
> > shell
> > can take a minute when the shell I want to return was moved to the
> > swap partition. Yes, this one minute is sixty seconds. The same is
> > true
> > when writing large amounts of data to the drive. The drive becomes
> > slow, very, very slow.
> > 
> > When the data to be read are not in the SSD part, the drive behaves
> > like a normal HD when you are not writing large data sets at the
> > same moment of time.
> > 
> > This is also my second drive. The first one died after less than
> > 15TB of data had been transferred. Of course, Seagate exchanged it
> > for free.
> > 
> > Both drives showed the same behaviour.
> > 
> > With other words, it is a double sided sword.
> > 
> > Erich  
> 
> Thank you. I have bad experience with Seagate, this is my second HD. I
> decided for 1TB or 2 TB 
> Western Digital
> 1.0TB WD Black Hard Disk Drive
> 3.5-Inch | SATA 6.0Gb/s | 7200RPM | 64MB Cache
> https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD1003FZEX/
> 
> I do not like invest in SSD drive because iMac 1,1 is old and who
> knows how long will be good and the next one will be PC.
> 
drives can easily be changed. Anyway, you will not have surprises with
this disk. Just a normal 1TB. It will deliver just what you expect.

Erich