Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 14:31:08 +0200 From: alexlh@yourchoice.nl (Alex Le Heux) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970502143108.alexlh@sarah.yc> In-Reply-To: <199705021141.MAA07672@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>; from Ian Vaudrey on May 2, 1997 12:38:40 %2B0100 References: <199705021141.MAA07672@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>
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Ian Vaudrey writes: [stuff cut] > > > 8 GB SCSI HD (Seagate?) > > I've no experience of Seagate SCSI drives, but I've had several of > their IDE drives fail. The high failure rate of Seagate units has also > been reported on recently in Computer Shopper (UK). I use Fujitsu SCSI > drives in my servers with no failures to date. > I have exactly the opposite experience. We have several Seagate Baraccuda drives here, and the have been _working_ very hard for the past year. No problems whatsoever. I know of several other people who have Baraccuda drives and they haven't had any problems either. Fujitsu on the other hand... Over the past year I've come accross 6 Fujitsu drives, none of which is still alive. They all started to have problems after about a two months of heavy use. > > SCSI Tape Drive (Seagate?) > > Travan? No experience of these, so no comments. > [more stuff cut] I have always been a big fan of HP DAT drives. We own several here, and they perform flawlessly. Just my fl. 0,02 Cheers, Alex -- /// I dabble in techno-house and sometimes, /// I do that badass hip-hop thang... /// But the F U N K gets me every time!
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