Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 23:29:01 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: alexlh@yourchoice.nl (Alex Le Heux) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970502232900.00bd03ec@mixcom.com>
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At 02:31 PM 5/2/97 +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote: >Ian Vaudrey writes: >> 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. Unless they changed in the past year the 2Gb Cuda is just too hot. Very solid otherwise. >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. They can almost cook for you. Heard from bad things from many network server builders. We *had* one. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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