Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:15:11 GMT From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: anderson@centtech.com, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs Message-ID: <200201282315.g0SNFBD95108@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Eric Anderson's message of Jan 28, 7:50pm
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> From: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) > Date: Mon 28 Jan, 2002 > Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs > 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. Weird. In the past twenty years working with computers (including a stint at administering workstations and servers), _all_ of the drives I've known to die have been Seagates (most of those were supplied by Sun, I avoid them as much as WD and Connor myself). Never witnessed a dying Quantum, Maxtor, Fujitsu, IBM (crossing my fingers for my DTLA now, though...). It's an insignificant statistic (probably talking about 2% of only a few hundred drives), but impresses on me... On a smaller scale I personally own about 20 drives, of those I've ever powered on, and of those two are Seagates, one dead and the other [Barracuda] relegated to a cupboard unpowered because of the noise it makes, replaced by a whispering Fujitsu; all the rest are powered up and working, some after 9 years' duty). Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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