Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:57:05 -0500 From: "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net> To: "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <000d01c148ab$91b4d780$0a00a8c0@midgar> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109282338330.90579-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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I've also had a great experience with fijitsu drives, I have four SCSI disks on a heavily loaded machine with no failures. Highly recomendable ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com> To: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 12:54 AM Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand > Charles Burns wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Does anyone have any BSD servers using Fujitsu drives? Any comments > > about them? > > I have used Fujitsu in perhaps 85% of my IDE BSD installations since the > early 90's and have NEVER had any reliability or compatibility issues. > They are historically (and currently) one of the quietest drives on the > market that I have used, which is nice, if you have several dozen or so of > them in a room full of busy servers and workstations ;-) I also sell them > in home and business computer systems more than drives from all other > vendors combined. > > Performance wise, they have always been more than adequate for my > applications. Price wise, they are also generally less expensive than > other brands with comparable specifications. > > I DID have one 250MB Fujitsu drive spontaneously go bad after a few years > of abuse in what (at the time) was a high load machine. After contacting > Fujitsu, the unit was quickly and without question replaced with a 1.7GB > drive. I can't say much about their current warranty service, however, as > the damn things never seem to go bad :-) > > - Ryan > > -- > Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> > Network Administrator, Accounts > > SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 > > Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon > Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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