From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16: 6:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F7A937B41B for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 81610 invoked by uid 100); 21 Nov 2001 00:06:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.61433.632385.776647@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:06:17 -0600 To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI harddrives In-Reply-To: <38607594@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Toomas Aas types: > On 20 Nov 01 at 1:01 you wrote: > > I have read about some Quantum drives from Storagereview.com, but I have > > never used a Quantum drive of any kind, ever, and remember only bad memories > > of fixing systems with those crappy Bigfoot drives. > > How are Quantum's SCSI drives? > 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). Even more so since Maxtor quit making SCSI drives a while back. > > 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? > 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. That's not a good assumption. Many drive manufacturers use the same media for both types of drive, and just attach different electronics to the drives. I recall one manufacturer that even had identical model numbers with an S attached for the SCSI version. IBM may do things differently, or the problems reported may be in the electronics - I'm not familiar with them - so don't take this as a "don't buy IBM" note. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message