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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:54:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reliable HDD brand
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109282338330.90579-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <F192qtQvAauNjVuMhvq0000ac00@hotmail.com>

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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

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