From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 10:42: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FEE37B418 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id fAKIfwa31402; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:41:58 +0200 Message-Id: <200111201841.fAKIfwa31402@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 20 Nov 01 20:41:12 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Charles Burns" Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:41:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI harddrives In-reply-to: X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 Hi Charles! On 20 Nov 01 at 1:01 you wrote: > I have read about some Quantum drives from Storagereview.com, but I have > never used a Quantum drive of any kind, ever, and remember only bad memories > of fixing systems with those crappy Bigfoot drives. > How are Quantum's SCSI drives? During last 5 years or so, I've had a grand total of 3 SCSI drives die on me. Two of them were Western Digital, one was Quantum. I don't think I'll be buying any more Quantum SCSI drives soon. Especially after Quantum was purchased by Maxtor (one of my least favourite HD manufacturers). > I was looking at IBM as well, but I have lost trust in them after their > 75GXP drive, which is roughly as reliable as Windows 95. Are their SCSI > drives better? Sure their new IDE drives have horrible track record, but I've had only good experience with their SCSI drives. I have a total of 15 IBM SCSI drives running in my servers right now and they all hum along just fine - the oldest are going their third year, the newest are from this year. I guess if I had to buy SCSI hard disk today, I'd still choose IBM. The production processes of IDE and SCSI disks should be distinct enough so that the SCSI drives don't get "infected" with the problems of current IDE drives. That's just my guess, though, so please take it for what it's worth. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I am Pentium of Borg! Division is futile! You will be approximated! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message