From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 23 10:13:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23471 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23445 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:13:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA28255; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:13:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:13:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: "Cassandra M. Perkins" cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI Drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Cassandra M. Perkins wrote: > For about a couple of years I have used Seagate Barracuta Drives. In that > time, I had to get an inwarranty replacement for about 45% of the drives. > I'm looking to purchase new drives and just wanted recommendations drives > used by the list. I'm willing to settle for slower speeds (and possibly > increased cost) for a highly reliable and robust drive. The hands-down winner for reliability for us has been IBM UltraStar drives. We run web servers and our drives get beat on all day, every day. BTW, the worst was Micropolis with Quantum running a close second (~100% failure rates). Seagate has been OK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message