From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 6:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net [129.250.36.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8003315606 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126DiE-0001FE-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:16:26 +0000 Received: from [157.238.16.49] (helo=bilver.magicnet.net) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126DiB-0001qA-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:16:23 +0000 Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA06554 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:15:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:15:46 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000106091546.A6523@bilver.magicnet.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: Organization: Vermillion Consulting Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 08:49:00AM -0500, Thus Spake Cliff Addy: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Matthew B. Henniges wrote: > > > I'm very happy with the adaptec u2w paired with quantam atlas 10k's > Nooooooooooooooooooooooo ..... In the last 4 years, 99% of the > hard drives we've had die are Quantums. Which models Quantum's. Some of the Quantum drives were only a level above the low-end Seagates when it came to reliability. One of the low-end SCSI lines typically had controller failure with no drive spin up. You could often salvage that with taking the controller from one drive and transplanting on another to at least get the data. The Empire's seemed to be pulled from the market. I've had no problems with the high end - the DEC designed drives - but the low end was pretty bad. > I recommend IBM drives. They've been absolutely reliable. A distant > second, but still OK, would be Seagate. I'll agree on the IBM's. With the advances in HD and head design in which IBM excels, some of their 5400 RPM drives had faster data transfer than the competitions 7200 RPM drives (baracudda era of about 3 years ago). I've noticed that with some manufacturers the warranty length seems to vary directly with the reliability. While the Seagate 'cuddas did fail with heating, they did have a 5 year warranty, while the Hawks usually made it past the first year - but not much after that. I had more than one SGI Indy with OEM'ed Seagate Hawks die in under 2 years. Pretty bad for what was a fairly expensive HW platform. -- Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message