Date: 30 Oct 2002 11:06:11 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) Message-ID: <1035938171.435.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've had trouble with BB drives. Given that they have (or had) a 3 What trouble? > year warranty, 1 year of experience isn't very much to go by. Hah, well not anymore.. I agree with your assessment about 1 vs 3 years, but as I said below it is basically impossible to know in advance. > > 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? You can buy JB drives which have both a larger cache and a longer warranty. You can also purchase an extended warranty (but it costs about the same as the price difference between the BB and JB drives) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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