From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 16:36:27 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 B37C637B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:36:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D769643E77; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:36:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9U0aBbT021479; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:06:11 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Kenneth Culver , Chuck Robey , "Wilkinson,Alex" , hackers@FreeBSD.org 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 30 Oct 2002 11:06:11 +1030 Message-Id: <1035938171.435.2.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 () IN_REP_TO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 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