Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 15:08:06 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.ml.org> To: Mike Bilow <mikebw@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Disks Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971225150449.18745A-100000@osiris.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <4a293dc0@bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net>
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On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Mike Bilow wrote: > > The good news: Micropolis 1991 have, in my experience, been very good drives. > > The bad news: Micropolis is in liquidation, and remanufactured drives have, in > my experience, proven to be very unreliable. > > I might consider this a good deal *if* I was running a system that was not > mission critical and I made really frequent backups. Your odds are better than > playing the lottery, but that's not saying much. > It's actually for my home machine.. It's going to be replacing a Maxtor and a WD IDE disk (which I'll probably put in other machines). I've come to the conclusion that _anything_ is more reliable than IDE, but I'm not really sure about this drive. I don't have a tape drive, and I can't afford one. There's a 90 day warranty on it. (from the reseller, I think). If anyone can shed some more light on this, I'd appreciate it. -Brian Ristuccia brianr@osiris.ml.org bristucc@baynetworks.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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