Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:42:23 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Alexey Koptsevich <alex@astro.su.se>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <3BB40DBF.1060603@yahoo.com> References: <E15mZnN-000DWu-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> <200109271431.f8REV6Y28398@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20010927182004.C3486@raggedclown.net> <200109280336.f8S3aZZ71503@whizzo.transsys.com>
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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Sorry if my information is out of date.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!
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