From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 13:11:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E552D37B432 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:10:04 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:10:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: any idea what this means? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020625201004567.AAA767@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:55:59 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul > I would also recommend Seagate, they seem to hold up better in production > machines than do Maxtor. Above all stay away from IBM. We have three of them > that were bad almost right from the box, and IBM is not being nice about > replacing them. I have beter things to do than a myriad of tests just to get > an RMA. Being new drives I figure they should give us the benefit of the > doubt and test them themselves. One they did replace had bad sectors right > out of the box. If those are 75GXP models, there are known problems with that series. In fact, that model has become rather infamous due to its problems. As it turns out, IBM recently announced it is getting out of the disk drive business altogether - it is selling the division to Hitachi. Could be the 75GXP debacle was the turning-point in that decision. Shortly prior to IBM's decision to get out of HD production, they issued some revised usage recommendations that suggested that those IDE drives were not meant for 24x7 server use. I think that in general the better SCSI drives are designed more with that in mind. My luck with IBM's SCSI drives has been pretty good actually. However my current favorite in SCSI drives is Fujitsu, although they aren't widely distributed via retail. (Fujitsu exited the IDE market, they are now only selling SCSI drives) Seagate is probably my #2 choice. Datapoint: I have had a 1GB Fujitsu SCSI drive (M2694-ES, old 50-pin SCSI-2 model) running 24x7 in a server here for ~2 yrs, and in another server prior to that for probably at least 1-2 yrs more, without a single problem. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message