From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 11:59:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC34137B410 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.210.246]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010927185941.SCBD28026.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:59:41 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Alexey Koptsevich" , Subject: RE: reliable HDD brand Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:57:47 -0400 Message-ID: <015301c14786$4c68a240$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alexey > Koptsevich > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:54 AM > To: scsi@freebsd.org; questions@freebsd.org > Subject: reliable HDD brand > > Hello, > > I would like to buy IDE HDDs for RAID, 40 Gb. Which IDE HDD brand is more > reliable? Any useful links, your experience? For the moment we have chosen > IBM Ericsson. IBM is a very good choice, and the one that I would go with. In my experience, IBM drives have been the most rock solid of any other manufacturer out there, having only had one of their drives go bad in the past 10 years. There are no other manufacturers that I can say that about. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message