From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 3 10:08:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05189 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 May 1997 10:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charmed.wilshire.net ([206.250.85.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05171 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 10:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rjmcintire (pool044.maxc.los-angeles.ca.us.dynip.earthlink.net [206.250.113.144]) by charmed.wilshire.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id KAA02703 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 10:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705031707.KAA02703@charmed.wilshire.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Riley J. McIntire" Organization: RJM Consulting To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:02:31 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What to buy? Reply-to: rjmcintire@wilshire.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just picked up 4- 2 GB Barracudas and *then* saw the comments about heat on this list. I think Seagate may have fixed it; these drives run just warm to the touch after hours with the case off without direct cooling. Riley > 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 > 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 > >