Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:07:39 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> Cc: Craig Hawco <dest@syd.eastlink.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <20001009120739.D15937@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20001009161016.C35132@moose.bri.hp.com>; from steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:10:16PM %2B0100 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <5.0.0.25.0.20001006160901.009eb5d0@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <20001006152247.B82507@pawn.primelocation.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20001006163108.009e9070@pop.syd.eastlink.ca> <20001009161016.C35132@moose.bri.hp.com>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:10:16PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:35:17PM -0300, Craig Hawco wrote:
> > Ah, very true, but I can't afford to replace it.
> > It's a 1.7gig Fujitsu M1623TAU.. 3 years old.
> > I have a 4-5year old 1gig Seagate that's still in perfect condition.. guess
> > that tells you how good Fujitsu drives are.
>
> Well, it tells you how good that particular Fujitsu is.
>
>
> I had a whole batch of seagate disks die on me at one company.
> That doesn't tell me how good Seagate drives are.
>
> I have 600Gb of filesystem entirely on seagate drives here, some fail
> some run happily. No disks are perfect, but it's rash to imply that
> Fujitsu are a bad disk manufacturor because one disk died!
>
> Personally fujitsu and IBM are at the top of my list above seagate on
> who to order from.
>
> Steve
I'll stick in my dime's worth, and ask a question about IDE drives
in general.
Re Fujitsu, in 1991 I bought a 1.08G SCSI drive mfg by them that
ran flawlessly for 8+ years before it died. Consider this simply
another data-point.
The question: How reliable are the new IDE drives? Is there any
published research comparing SCSI and IDE reliability?
gary
>
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