Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seagate vs Quantum.. opinions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908270923180.2537-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199908270950.TAA28541@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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> > >IBM drives are okay, but like a lot of IBM stuff, sometimes do things > >gratuitously different. Also, they sometimes die in midlife- unlike > >Seagate drives which, past initial mortality, seem to go for years. > > When people vouch for their favourite drives I would like them to also > give an estimate of how many drives they are basing their opinions on. > > For example, I've got 3 IBM SCSI disks. Love them. Quiet, low heat, > fairly fast. I've got some really old Seagates. Love them (well, they > used to be fast for their day). I've got some not-quite-so-old Seagates. > Hate them. Noisy, hot. But the point is that this is only 10 drives > total that I'm basing all this on. (This isn't counting a fair collection > of really, really old hardware thrown at me instead of the bin). > > So, how many drives have you watched live and die? Over my entire career? 1000s.... But it's a fair question- Less than 100 for recent memory. But this also should be qualified by environment. Those who watch today over 100s of drives will have them in a room with reasonable power and cooling. The less than 100 drives I currently have are in > 85 degree F year round, flakey power and dust bad enough that anyone with allergies can't stay in the room more than 30 seconds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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