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From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk>
To: "Alex Le Heux" <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>,
        "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
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Subject: Re: What to buy?
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 08:28:22 +0100
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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
> 
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- Ian