From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 16: 8:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backmaster.cdsnet.net (backmaster.cdsnet.net [63.163.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48AEC37B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 82242 invoked by uid 29999); 27 Sep 2001 23:11:03 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:11:03 -0700 From: Jaye Mathisen To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: Alexey Koptsevich , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <20010927161103.A67900@backmaster.cdsnet.net> References: <015301c14786$4c68a240$0e00000a@tomcat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <015301c14786$4c68a240$0e00000a@tomcat> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i 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 Of course, there will be a kazillion opinions, but I have been using Maxtor drives with good success. On their web page, they have a utility that will let you turn on IDE write verify, which gives you a little extra layer of securiyt, and it seems to work well. I use it, and I don't notice the performance problem, and the peace of mind is worth it. I have 16 IBM 76GB drives in a raid array, and I am very unhappy with them, but it turns out it may be my 3ware card instead, which just got RMA'd to 3ware for some problem. On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:57:47PM -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > -----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message