From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 14:48:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lambic.physics.montana.edu (lambic.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06588 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (handy@localhost) by lambic.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA10335; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:46:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:46:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy To: Terrance Young cc: Hallam Oaks , "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm In-Reply-To: <362F8D9C.ACDA3BF0@hmsa.com> Message-ID: X-files: The truth is out there MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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