From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 2 21:27:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA11294 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 21:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA11287 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 21:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id XAA20897; Fri, 2 May 1997 23:29:51 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020885; Fri May 2 23:29:22 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970502232900.00bd03ec@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 23:29:01 -0500 To: alexlh@yourchoice.nl (Alex Le Heux) From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: What to buy? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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