From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 28 10:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B7437B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B0A7918F4; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:29:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A958718F3 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:29:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs In-Reply-To: <20020128002248.GA46069@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The WD's are a strange breed of drives. I've had disks fail in the > first few weeks of them being bought, replacement disks fail too. Yet > there are cases like the two 45 Gb atapi disks I now use on my > workstation at home that work great for more than 1.5 year now, > without EVER showing any problem at all. Western Digital started going down hill when they released the 1.2 gig drives. Since then they've had nothing but problems. That's why I went to Fujitsu... but now that WD has bought them up, I'm willing to bet we'll see an increase in reliability. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message