From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 22:54: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C76E37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02349; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:54:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:54:00 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Charles Burns wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Does anyone have any BSD servers using Fujitsu drives? Any comments > about them? I have used Fujitsu in perhaps 85% of my IDE BSD installations since the early 90's and have NEVER had any reliability or compatibility issues. They are historically (and currently) one of the quietest drives on the market that I have used, which is nice, if you have several dozen or so of them in a room full of busy servers and workstations ;-) I also sell them in home and business computer systems more than drives from all other vendors combined. Performance wise, they have always been more than adequate for my applications. Price wise, they are also generally less expensive than other brands with comparable specifications. I DID have one 250MB Fujitsu drive spontaneously go bad after a few years of abuse in what (at the time) was a high load machine. After contacting Fujitsu, the unit was quickly and without question replaced with a 1.7GB drive. I can't say much about their current warranty service, however, as the damn things never seem to go bad :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message