From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 11:31:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF3216A4CF for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta2.rdslink.ro (mta2.rdslink.ro [193.231.236.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0380943D49 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 6917 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2004 14:28:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.rdslink.ro) (193.231.236.20) by mta2.rdslink.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Jun 2004 14:28:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 12546 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2004 11:30:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (82.76.249.55) by mail.rdslink.ro with SMTP; 30 Jun 2004 11:30:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1C0190; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:02 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 41548-10; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:02 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 53CD913; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:02 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:02 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-Id: <20040630143502.7677cca1@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040629150632.J74139@ganymede.hub.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:31:15 -0000 On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:11:44 -0300 (ADT) "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > I've always used Seagate or Quantum drives in my servers ... with the > recent thought about switching to Dual-Athlon servers, from Intel, and the > caveats about both heat and power that I've had, its been recommended > switching to Hitachi drives from the usual Seagate ... also, apparently > the failure rates are higher on the Seagate's are much higher then the > Hitachi ... > > Since I can't say I've ever had a complaint (other then the U320 firmware > fiasco that Seagate did fix), I'm wondering if there is that much of a > difference with the Hitachi's to warrant the extra ~$50/drive ... ? I can say nothing about Hitachi, but with Seagate's IDEs I've had troubles on 5.x (the last one last night). It's seems to be something about ATA timings; the results are file systems completely messed-up after 1 of 2 reboots; also it depends on firmware revision of the HDD in question and FreeBSD version (e.g. I've used one 40G HDD as my boot disk for a few months on 5.0, but now it ain't working with 5.2.1). But with the SCSI Seagates I've had no problems, always worked well, even in some warm places. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"