From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 16:29:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C0637B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2B343E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BA03053C4F; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:59:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:59:12 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Kenneth Culver , Chuck Robey , "Wilkinson,Alex" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) Message-ID: <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 29 October 2002 at 2:03:50 +0000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: >>> I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives >>> are pretty unreliable though. >>> >> Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has >> ended up with problems which were of course handled by the warranty, but >> even then, I still had to reinstall the os and pull a bunch of stuff from >> my backups which was a pain to do for each failure. Like I said, just my >> personal experience. I don't think the new 8MB cache drives have been out >> long enough to actually develop the problems I've seen on WD drives >> though. > > Yes, but my point is that the AA drives are bad, but the BB drives seem > good. I have been using them for a while (~1 year) without trouble. I've had trouble with BB drives. Given that they have (or had) a 3 year warranty, 1 year of experience isn't very much to go by. > Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - > they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time > it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding > what to buy a PITA :( That's a more valid point. Note that WD and Seagate have dropped their warranty on IDE drives from 3 years to 1 year. What does this say to you? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message