From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 29 16:42:36 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 D993337B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.aus.com (adsl-66-127-242-2.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.127.242.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBEB43E77; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsharpe@ns.aus.com) Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9U13Y205269; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:33:34 +1030 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:33:34 +1030 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Kenneth Culver , Chuck Robey , "Wilkinson,Alex" , Subject: Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) In-Reply-To: <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 30 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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? Hmmm, from what I remember, they did that for the 5400RPM drives, not the 7200RPM drives! Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, sharpe@ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message