From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 11:55: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D9B37B406; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:55:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9TJsjo09538; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:54:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:53:28 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011029145028.N51234-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> 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 On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > 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. Catchin up with my lists... Take a look at storagereview.com I look at this site at least 3 to 4 times a week. Lots of info about HDs including reliability, performance and recently even reviews on noise. In particular try and read the forums regularly. As for those asking why SCSI disks are better it is usually because components and manufacturing of SCSI drives is better. SCSI drives are usually so much better than SCSI that almost 3 years ago I bought some used SCSI drives for $75 and those drives have survived longer than several brand new IDEs (IBM and Quantum). My only two issues with SCSI are the price and the noise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message