From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 18:22:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAD216A4D0; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beowulf.devnetinc.com (beowulf.devnetinc.com [65.204.197.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39FB43D54; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:22:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crome@devnetinc.com) Received: from cromatic (portal.devnetinc.com [65.204.197.227]) by beowulf.devnetinc.com (DEVNET, Inc. Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id 281A82000302; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:32:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jason A. Crome" To: "'Marc G. Fournier'" , Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:22:23 -0500 Organization: DEVNET, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-reply-to: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Thread-Index: AcRd/b9AyKoEr0W2RSSH6hvtuTRxwQAB8W0g Message-Id: <20040629173234.281A82000302@beowulf.devnetinc.com> cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:22:12 -0000 I can't imagine a higher failure rate than we've had with Hitachi drives. Of the 15 or so servers we've built for customers using Hitachi drives over the last 2 years, 6 of them came back after about a year of operation with catastrophic drive failures. And unfortunately it wasn't just a bad batch of drives - they were manufactured at entirely different times. Sooooo, I guess give the two options, I'd say Seagate ;-) -------------------------------------------------- Jason A. Crome Senior Software Engineer, DEVNET, Inc. E-Mail: crome@devnetinc.com http://www.devnetinc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc > G. Fournier > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:12 PM > To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted > > > I've always used Seagate or Quantum drives in my servers ... > with the recent thought about switching to Dual-Athlon > servers, from Intel, and the caveats about both heat and > power that I've had, its been recommended switching to > Hitachi drives from the usual Seagate ... also, apparently > the failure rates are higher on the Seagate's are much higher > then the Hitachi ... > > Since I can't say I've ever had a complaint (other then the > U320 firmware fiasco that Seagate did fix), I'm wondering if > there is that much of a difference with the Hitachi's to > warrant the extra ~$50/drive ... ? > > The server we are putting together will be a 2U chassis, with > 6 U320 drives in it ... either hitachi or seagate ... > > Thoughts? Opinions? > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services > (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy > ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >