From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 22:42:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BF3237B410 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 05:42:24 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3BB40DBF.1060603@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:42:23 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Cliff Sarginson , "Justin T. Gibbs" , Alexey Koptsevich , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand References: <200109271431.f8REV6Y28398@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20010927182004.C3486@raggedclown.net> <200109280336.f8S3aZZ71503@whizzo.transsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >>On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:31:06AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> >>>>>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. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Alex >>>>> >>>>I think HP disks are generally reckoned to be the top-notch, but they >>>>come at a premium. >>>> >>>Umm. HP doesn't even make disks anymore. Instead they rebrand >>>Fujitsu, IBM, or Seagate drives. >>> >>>-- >>>Justin >>> >>Oh ok. >>Well they used to have a reasonably well founded reputation for >>super reliability (and price). >>Sorry if my information is out of date. >> > > Right up until they had a serious, serious problem with their SCSI > drives. We replaced these things by the dozens 5 or 6 years ago. > Twice. Then I guess they decided they really didn't want to be in > the disk business any longer, and that was that. > > louie I've had one of their 1.3G full-height drives running nearly continously for about seven years now, and i bought it used even! jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message