Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 08:28:22 +0100 From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: "Alex Le Heux" <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <199705030731.IAA10386@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>
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> From: Jeffrey J. Mountin <sysop@mixcom.com> > To: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@yourchoice.nl> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What to buy? > Date: 03 May 1997 05:29 > > 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. I am really puzzled that we've had such different experiences of Fujitsu units. Is it one particular model that has given trouble, or is this across the range? Any comments on Micropolis? > ------------------------------------------- > Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator > jeff@mixcom.net > > MIX Communications > Serving the Internet since 1990 - Ian
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