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Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted
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In a word, yeah.

In a few more words, I wish we hadn't found out the hard way about the high
failure rates.  Has been no end of trouble for us.

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Jason A. Crome
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Scott T. Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: Jason A. Crome
> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:22, Jason A. Crome wrote:
> > I can't imagine a higher failure rate than we've had with 
> Hitachi drives.
> > Of the 15 or so servers we've built for customers using 
> Hitachi drives 
> > over the last 2 years, 6 of them came back after about a year of 
> > operation with catastrophic drive failures.  And unfortunately it 
> > wasn't just a bad batch of drives - they were manufactured 
> at entirely different times.
> > 
> > Sooooo, I guess give the two options, I'd say Seagate ;-)
> 
> Isn't the current Hitachi drive business just IBM's old drive 
> business, which they offloaded a couple years back when they 
> were having the high failure rates of the DeskStar 75?
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/04/0050238
> 
> http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002may/gee20020605012041.htm
> 
> 	Scott
> 
> 
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