Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:46:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> To: Terrance Young <tyoung@hmsa.com> Cc: Hallam Oaks <mlnn4@oaks.com.au>, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810221544001.10316-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <362F8D9C.ACDA3BF0@hmsa.com>
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>> o we're thinking of using Seagate Elite 47gb drives. These are 5400 RPM >> units (speed isn't an issue to us). Does anyone have any opinions >> about these (good/bad/indifferent) or of previous members of that >> drive family ? > >Personally I get wary of Very Large Drives still... (hope the room is >real cool) I'm still not too sure of the reliability yet...we'll >see...the largest we have are 14 gig drives seems to be holding up so >far... but 47 gig humm... does anyone you know been using those for a >while (at least as long as they been out)? I have friends in the image analysis business (read: solar physics) that use lots of drives pretty hard, and the 47GB drives haven't yet panned out very well, lots of failures.. In fact, I believe Seagate has discontinued that drive, along with the 23GB drive that preceeded it. I have some 18GB drive that are working, but we don't have a large enough set to say anything statistical about them. Good luck... Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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