From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 14: 6:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1D937B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:06:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.154.189]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.13 201-229-121-113) with ESMTP id <20011120220614.KLGF10885.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:06:14 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKM6Cn01967; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:06:12 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04898; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:05:41 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:05:40 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Toomas Aas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Charles Burns Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI harddrives Message-ID: <20011120220540.A381@localhost> References: <200111201841.fAKIfwa31402@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200111201841.fAKIfwa31402@lv.raad.tartu.ee>; from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:41:08PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:41:08PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi Charles! > > During last 5 years or so, I've had a grand total of 3 SCSI drives > die on me. Two of them were Western Digital, one was Quantum. I > don't think I'll be buying any more Quantum SCSI drives soon. > Especially after Quantum was purchased by Maxtor (one of my least > favourite HD manufacturers). > > > I was looking at IBM as well, but I have lost trust in them after their > > 75GXP drive, which is roughly as reliable as Windows 95. Are their SCSI > > drives better? > > Sure their new IDE drives have horrible track record, but I've had > only good experience with their SCSI drives. I have a total of 15 > IBM SCSI drives running in my servers right now and they all hum > along just fine - the oldest are going their third year, the newest > are from this year. > > I guess if I had to buy SCSI hard disk today, I'd still choose IBM. > The production processes of IDE and SCSI disks should be distinct > enough so that the SCSI drives don't get "infected" with the > problems of current IDE drives. That's just my guess, though, so > please take it for what it's worth. I'll second Toomas' endorsement of IBM's SCSI drives -- we're running several dozen of them in our servers and AFAIK none have failed yet (they're mostly 1-2 years old). This is just subjective opinion, but the build quality does seems better than the IDE models. The SCSI drives are definitely heavier and just feel more solid. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message