Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:57:11 +0000 From: Ian J Greely <Ian@tirnanog.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jaz drives, booting from one? Message-ID: <=kCKOK3WMwx2W1BDtAeEorvKeO23@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <l03130301b4ad50d82828@[129.123.1.184]> References: <l03130301b4ad50d82828@[129.123.1.184]>
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Just adding my 0.02 cents worth on the reliability of the Jaz disks. From personal experience of these devices on several thousand servers the failure rate of the disks is *phenominal*. These are an incredibly flakey device and I would suggest that unless you intend to run the machine in a clean environment (like the Intel Plant in Leixlip!) don't do this to yourself. It's not really a case of if the device fails more a case of when. Added to this is the upgrade path Iomega have. The older 1 Gig disks are no longer being created and it is not possible to use the newer 2 Gig disks in the older device. The new device will not allow low level formatting of the older 1 Gig disks... Not a company with a "the customer is king" philosophy. *smile* If you really want "removable" buy a removable cady for hot swapable SCSI disks and a few low capacity SCSI disks. Given how expensive the media for the Jaz is it will not really make all that much difference cost-wise. Even better, forget the "hot" and buy a removable cady for IDE disks. For the cost of 3 X 1 Gig Jaz disks you can buy a 18Gig quantum HD. *shrug* regards, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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