From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 8 16:55:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA25662 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25656 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com by lserver.infoworld.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #12) id m0uof4w-000wzGC; Thu, 8 Aug 96 17:05 PDT Received: from ccMail by ccgate.infoworld.com (SMTPLINK V2.11) id AA839548356; Thu, 08 Aug 96 17:49:55 PST Date: Thu, 08 Aug 96 17:49:55 PST Message-Id: <9607088395.AA839548356@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: scott@statsci.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI if only one drive Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > it seems like all of their new drives seem to have a 90 day or one year > warranty, where a lot of the others I've seen are 3-5 year warranties. I've had mixed results with Corporate Systems Center. Some drives I've gotten from them have been fine; others are real lemons. Be sure you know if you are getting a prototype or refurb drive. Also, because most drives either fail within 6 months (not necessarily just 3) or after 3-5 years, make sure that you are either willing to take the risk or buy with a credit card that offers an extended product warranty. (Most "gold cards" do.) >> www.isn.com and their "Sequel DFRS 2.25GB SCSI hard drive" > I think I've seen that before (but I can't find it on that site at the > moment). Does that drive have a decent track record? Sequel takes over the support and service of discontinued models from Maxtor (and possibly other vendors; I'm not sure). I don't think anything that's labeled as a "Sequel" drive is going to be a current model, so you'll need to find out who made it originally and consider why the manufacturer might have dropped it. In some cases, it *was* because the drive was troublesome. In other cases, it's because the manufacturer got out of the market. But getting an identical replacement down the road could be tricky. --Brett