From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 28 15:10:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B593B37B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dotar-sojat.thuvia.org (dotar-sojat.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0SNAhD71751; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:10:44 GMT (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar-sojat.thuvia.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SNFBD95108; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:15:11 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:15:11 GMT From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200201282315.g0SNFBD95108@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Eric Anderson's message of Jan 28, 7:50pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: anderson@centtech.com, Rick Hamell Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 > From: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) > Date: Mon 28 Jan, 2002 > Subject: Re: Western Digital HDs > I've actually had nothing but problems with the Fujitsu's we have (SCSI). I > don't like their drives at all.. I buy IBM's for IDE, and Seagates for SCSI. Weird. In the past twenty years working with computers (including a stint at administering workstations and servers), _all_ of the drives I've known to die have been Seagates (most of those were supplied by Sun, I avoid them as much as WD and Connor myself). Never witnessed a dying Quantum, Maxtor, Fujitsu, IBM (crossing my fingers for my DTLA now, though...). It's an insignificant statistic (probably talking about 2% of only a few hundred drives), but impresses on me... On a smaller scale I personally own about 20 drives, of those I've ever powered on, and of those two are Seagates, one dead and the other [Barracuda] relegated to a cupboard unpowered because of the noise it makes, replaced by a whispering Fujitsu; all the rest are powered up and working, some after 9 years' duty). Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message