From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Aug 19 5:48:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from borja.sarenet.es (borja.sarenet.es [192.148.167.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E9D37B419 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 05:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Received: from there (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by borja.sarenet.es (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7JCm5F91609 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:48:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Message-Id: <200108191248.f7JCm5F91609@borja.sarenet.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Borja Marcos To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 14:48:05 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:10, you wrote: > Yup, cables that were supplied by 3ware. In 3 2 or 3 different cases > and power supplies. Each were 300 or 400 watt power supplies. Excuse me for stepping into the discussion, but I think this is an important issue: Which was the brand of the cases, power supplies and fans? How much did they cost? Nowadays the choice of a good case and power supply is as important as the choice of a good cabling, disks, etc. Regarding disks, I have seen whole batches of disks failing because of poor handling in one of the dealers. When you buy a disk it usually travels through a complex chain involving three or four dealers. It is crazy, and it is impossible to make sure that the disks have been properly handled all the time. One of the cures is to buy them from different dealers, and better with different manufacture dates. Borja. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message