Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 19:02:36 +0100 From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: "Alex Le Heux" <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <199705021805.TAA08020@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>
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> From: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@yourchoice.nl> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What to buy? > Date: 02 May 1997 13:31 > > 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. > Interesting. I've just dug out the invoice for my oldest Fujitsu SCSI unit: It was purchased and installed in November 1993 and has been 100% reliable ever since. Another two are both just under 2 years old and have also given no trouble. The most recent pair have only just been installed, so we'll see how they do... In the same time period I've personally had three Seagate drives fail, albeit these were IDE units, and I know of several others. The writer of the Computer Shopper article has also had three Seagate units fail, in a period of less than nine months. I'm glad to hear that their SCSI units are not as troublesome! <snip> > > 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! - Ian
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