From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Aug 27 2:52:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4915485 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id TAA08464; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:50:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.detir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma008458; Fri, 27 Aug 99 19:50:36 +1000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA06997; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:50:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01622; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:50:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost.detir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA28541; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:50:34 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199908270950.TAA28541@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Seagate vs Quantum.. opinions? References: In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:53:59 -0700" Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:50:34 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 25th August 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: >IBM drives are okay, but like a lot of IBM stuff, sometimes do things >gratuitously different. Also, they sometimes die in midlife- unlike >Seagate drives which, past initial mortality, seem to go for years. When people vouch for their favourite drives I would like them to also give an estimate of how many drives they are basing their opinions on. For example, I've got 3 IBM SCSI disks. Love them. Quiet, low heat, fairly fast. I've got some really old Seagates. Love them (well, they used to be fast for their day). I've got some not-quite-so-old Seagates. Hate them. Noisy, hot. But the point is that this is only 10 drives total that I'm basing all this on. (This isn't counting a fair collection of really, really old hardware thrown at me instead of the bin). So, how many drives have you watched live and die? Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message