Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 06:50:07 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <13046581360.20010929065007@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109282338330.90579-100000@ren.sasknow.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109282338330.90579-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Saturday, September 29, 2001, 1:54:00 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote: RT> Charles Burns wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: >> Does anyone have any BSD servers using Fujitsu drives? Any comments >> about them? RT> I have used Fujitsu in perhaps 85% of my IDE BSD installations since the RT> early 90's and have NEVER had any reliability or compatibility issues. RT> They are historically (and currently) one of the quietest drives on the RT> market that I have used, which is nice, if you have several dozen or so of RT> them in a room full of busy servers and workstations ;-) I also sell them RT> in home and business computer systems more than drives from all other RT> vendors combined. RT> Performance wise, they have always been more than adequate for my RT> applications. Price wise, they are also generally less expensive than RT> other brands with comparable specifications. RT> I DID have one 250MB Fujitsu drive spontaneously go bad after a few years RT> of abuse in what (at the time) was a high load machine. After contacting RT> Fujitsu, the unit was quickly and without question replaced with a 1.7GB RT> drive. I can't say much about their current warranty service, however, as RT> the damn things never seem to go bad :-) RT> - Ryan I was under the impression that Fujitsu has exited the hard drive market, like many others, because of the recent market problems that many companies have been dealing with. If this is true, then too bad, since I have also enjoyed their products with much success. -- -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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