From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 3 16:54: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mensa.national.com.au (mensa.national.com.au [203.57.240.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4E514CF0 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nconedd@mensa.national.com.au) Received: (from nconedd@localhost) by mensa.national.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id LAA10840; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:52:12 +1100 (EST) From: Enno Davids Message-Id: <199911040052.LAA10840@mensa.national.com.au> Subject: Re: BackUp Drive To: steve@inc.net (Steve Kaczkowski) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:52:12 +1100 (EST) Cc: bill@bilver.magicnet.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3820CC39.306DA8DC@inc.net> from "Steve Kaczkowski" at Nov 3, 99 05:58:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0a3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its also my experience that avoiding new models/new technologies for 3-6 months isn't an altogether bad strategy. So, while the new 50Gb Seagates look nice, I'll wait till January before committing to them. Completely agree on the economy drive vs. quality drive argument too, although when a 17Gb IDE Seagate can be had for ~A$200 it may be hard to tell the difference. I too have seen the economy effect with most manufacturers though. It seems a natural outcome of building to a price rather than building to a level of performance. Enno. | Bill Vermillion wrote: | > | > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:51:13PM +0300, Andrew Karjagin spewed forth: | > | > > First HDD Seagate worked two years and crash! Second HDD Seagate | > > worked two years and crash! Now we buy Quantum (there can be | > > better) and at us the problem has appeared with purchase of BackUp | > > drive. We work with FreeBSD 2.2.6, in future plan to pass on | > > FreeBSD 3.*. | > | > Seagate build drives that last and they build economy drives. | > Same with Quantum. I've had low end drives from both fail in short | > periods of time to drives that seem to last forver | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message