From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 28 11:35:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B40A37B400 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0SJZpK27517; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:35:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18831; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:35:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C55A7DD.149E4EE2@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:34:53 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've actually had nothing but problems with the Fujitsu's we have (SCSI). I don't like their drives at all.. I buy IBM's for IDE, and Seagates for SCSI. Eric Rick Hamell wrote: > > > The WD's are a strange breed of drives. I've had disks fail in the > > first few weeks of them being bought, replacement disks fail too. Yet > > there are cases like the two 45 Gb atapi disks I now use on my > > workstation at home that work great for more than 1.5 year now, > > without EVER showing any problem at all. > > Western Digital started going down hill when they released the 1.2 > gig drives. Since then they've had nothing but problems. That's why I went > to Fujitsu... but now that WD has bought them up, I'm willing to bet we'll > see an increase in reliability. :) > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message