From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 13 8:40:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yez.hyperreal.org (425gate.collab.net [63.211.145.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B2C637B66E for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3485 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Oct 2000 15:40:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Oct 2000 15:40:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:40:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf X-Sender: brian@yez.hyperreal.org To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001013005356.00ba4a20@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > IMO, WD went to pot years back their choice on concentrating on the low end > market doesn't help. Seagate's IDE drives seem to have been among the > slowest around. Years back started having better results with Maxtor and > then IBM came in with the best performance and price for *both* SCSI and > IDE. Many have talked about their good experiences with the former, but > can't say I recall much on the latter. I've had two recent IBM drives (both U2W 36G, out of four recently purchased) fail on me recently within weeks of purchase. I would hesitate to recommend them again, which is unfortunate because they used to be completely trustable. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message