From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 23: 1:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A58A737B401 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1226 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2001 06:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.133.100) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 06:01:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 9672 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2001 06:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 06:01:07 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Charles Burns" , "questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:00:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-Id: <20010930060110.A58A737B401@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:29:38 -0700, Charles Burns wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I would like to buy IDE HDDs for RAID, 40 Gb. Which IDE HDD brand is >>more >> >> reliable? Any useful links, your experience? For the moment we have >>chosen >> >> IBM Ericsson. >> > >> >We have good experiences with IBM *SCSI* disks. For IDE I hear mixed >> >stories about IBM, hmm. >> >>i've had pretty good luck with maxtor IDE as of late. IBM SCSI disks >>are _supposed_ to be among the best, but Seagate used to have good >>SCSI. I've also had good luck with fujitsu IDE drives, surprisingly >>enough. > >Fujitsu seems to be the quiet one that nobody seems to have much experience >with (at least not myself or any that I know). They make very reliable (and >very slow) motherboards, and make some nice, big servers (at least I think >it was Fujitsu that makes a SPARC64 server with > 100 processors, one of the >most powerful servers in the world) > >Does anyone have any BSD servers using Fujitsu drives? Any comments about >them? I never run BSD on a fujistsu, but I used to run a 2 line BBS with mail tosser & internet connection w/ OS/2 WARP3 on a 486dx4-133 w/ 28megs of ram without any problems at all. I had fbsd running on the 1.7g futjitsu for a while b4 i got this maxtor 4g back in the mail. I ran the hell outta a 540 & 1.7gig fujitsu for about 2 yrs a piece.. the 540 worked real good until i dropped it, then it wouldnt read the boot record, but would do everything else. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message