Renesas sent me a superh developer board, for doing Gentoo SuperH development on it i need an HDD.
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I recommend approval. (I've been working closely with Raúl on sparc for some time.)
I have some extras around so I could also mail one if it's cost efficient.
Hey guys, Sorry to interrupt here. Are you sure you wanna buy a seagate hdd? According to this article (and many more) http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16246, certain 7200.11 seagate models including the Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive ST3500320AS, could have some serious issues. Wouldn't it be better to consider buying the following hdd: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218 More capacity and faster tansfer speeds, costs about 74.99$, definitely not affected by some firmware troubles...
Shipping to Spain would be 10,35€ or if it fits a smaller envelope 6,20€.
Created attachment 179014 [details] funding-request-v2.txt Changed the Seagate HDD with a WD. Yet Petteri's offer is good, its up to the trustees to decide.
I'd prefer to spend money on something that works, but I don't have any feel for how "bad" the seagate drive actually is. So I'll defer to whoever actually knows.
Just out of curiosity, is there any need for a large HDD? If no, then I would recommend one of the Seagate 7200.10 160GB drives, they are <$50 (newegg) and fast enough for most dev activities. There is an 80GB drive as well for ~$35. Buy 2 & run SW raid1 for happiness & joy. Now, Seagate drives are, for the most part, very solid drives. I must say I have not used any of the TiB+ drives that are experiencing firmware issues, I do have a bunch of the ES & ES.2 drives in production now. I have always had bad luck with WD drives failing really early unless they are extremely well cooled.
(In reply to comment #8) > Just out of curiosity, is there any need for a large HDD? If no, then I would > recommend one of the Seagate 7200.10 160GB drives, they are <$50 (newegg) and > fast enough for most dev activities. There is an 80GB drive as well for ~$35. > Yeah but we probably don't want to ship the drive from US to Spain so local prices are what's important here.
(In reply to comment #8) > Just out of curiosity, is there any need for a large HDD? If no, then I would > recommend one of the Seagate 7200.10 160GB drives, they are <$50 (newegg) and > fast enough for most dev activities. There is an 80GB drive as well for ~$35. > Buy 2 & run SW raid1 for happiness & joy. Now, Seagate drives are, for the > most part, very solid drives. I must say I have not used any of the TiB+ > drives that are experiencing firmware issues, I do have a bunch of the ES & > ES.2 drives in production now. I have always had bad luck with WD drives > failing really early unless they are extremely well cooled. > WESTERN DIGITAL SATA2 500GB 7200 16MB = 57.13 EUR = $75.11 USD = $0.15 USD/GB WESTERN DIGITAL SATA2 320GB 7200 16MB = 45.75 EUR = $59.30 USD = $0.18 USD/GB SEAGATE SATA2 250GB 7200 8MB = 40.81 EUR = $52.90 USD = $0.21 USD/GB <- guessing this would be 7200.10, its not specified SEAGATE SATA2 160GB 7200 8MB = 36.69 EUR = $47.52 USD = $0.29 USD/GB <- guessing this would be 7200.10, its not specified SEAGATE SATA2 80GB 7200 8MB = 33.36 EUR = $43.21 USD = $0.54 USD/GB I'm just choosing 500GB because is what has better capacity for the price. Thats the way it is in Spain. Besides, please read the following link, as ES.2 SATA2 drives are affected as well: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931 Also there are 160, 250, 320, 500, 640 and 750GB drives affected. In fact i have the 500GB model, which is what i was going to buy for this. I'd like to install the system ASAP, so i don't really care what gets choosed :)
500GB is fine with me. I still would approve whatever you think is best for your needs. So from me, there is a standing vote to approve.
lets not reinvent the wheel and spend ages debating what colour its should be. (Thanks Douglas Adams) If shipping from Petteri makes sense do it. If buying locally make sense, do that. We need to allow applicants to exercise their engineering judegement to some degree. I'm in favour of Raúl getting a drive for the superh developer board using either of the above methods. Sourcing in the USA is not an option. There will be duties and VAT to pay at European customs.
Just FYI: Tsunam approved it and he was going to do the transfer, but i bought the hdd first. Turned out I either had a bad Molex-SATA power adapter, or something, as the board wasn't able to start with it plugged, but was able to start with an IDE disk(The board has Molex, yet it has only SATA interface). Therefore i suspect a bad Molex-SATA power adapter, so i need to go and buy one, but i haven't had time yet as i have a cold. Next week probably. For now i'm doing the work on an USB stick.
(In reply to comment #13) I've bought the molex-sata power adapter. The HDD works fine now. I've pinged tsunam to refund the money.
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Funds sent after paypal is happy again. Sorry for the delay
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