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Subject: Re: 4GB Seagate Barracuda (Hawk Replacement) goes nuts after a while
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 14:13:43 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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> >     Seagate replaced the 4GB Hawk with a repaired 4GB Barracuda but
> > I seem to have a problem after Solaris 2.4 (without any patches) has
> > been running for a while but not doing anything. I suppose the
> > nfsd is scanning the disk once per night but other than that it's
> > wasn't doing much.
> 
> Nice of seagate to replace your drive with a faster one except that the
> Barracuda series is pretty much known as a lemon do to overheating
> problems and media that likes to flake :-(.

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> I have been avoiding Seagate drives for about the past 5 years.  Some times
> I have used them due to the fact that they made the only drive in the right
> capacity/performance/price point.  Infact I sold 2 and 4G hawks for a short
> period of time earlier this year since I was having a very hard time getting
> any Quantum or Micropolis drives in that size.

I have noticed an interesting fact. Hard disks of some menufacturers when
purchased in brand-name computers are much more stable than when
purchased independently. Seagate is a good example. We have a couple
of Seagate 1G Hawks in ICLs and they are working very stable.
DEC uses Seagate Barracuda as their RZ-29 disks and they work stable too.
But when we purchased two Hawks directly from a Seagate dealers we had
lots of troubles with them. We had like problems with Micropolis.
It looks like computer manufacturers do some additional testing and/or
low-level formatting or HDD manufacturers divide their disks by
cathegories using some tests.

-SB