Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 17:58:49 -0600 From: Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net> To: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BackUp Drive Message-ID: <3820CC39.306DA8DC@inc.net> References: <38199841.9483CAE0@tdis.gctc.rssi.ru> <19991029082829.A7680@bilver.magicnet.net>
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Bill Vermillion wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:51:13PM +0300, Andrew Karjagin spewed forth: > > > First HDD Seagate worked two years and crash! Second HDD Seagate > > worked two years and crash! Now we buy Quantum (there can be > > better) and at us the problem has appeared with purchase of BackUp > > drive. We work with FreeBSD 2.2.6, in future plan to pass on > > FreeBSD 3.*. > > Seagate build drives that last and they build economy drives. > Same with Quantum. I've had low end drives from both fail in short > periods of time to drives that seem to last forver > > > What model of the device of reserve copying well works with given OS's > > (may be IDE or SCSI - based on your experience)? > > I've always used SCSI. As to the Seagate/Quantum, I've only used > the Seagate drives that came out of the design team that used > to build the CDC drives, the Elite's, Baracuddas, Cheetahs, and > the Quantums that were designed by DEC, the Viking on the low end > of the high-end line, and the Atlas products. > > Drives like the Seagate Hawks, and Quantum Fireball's, always > seemed to fail prematurely, at least for me. > > Longest I've had a drive run was seven years two months and about > 10 days. An old Maxtor, running 24x7 in a Usenet news node. [I > kept it running for the last two years just to see how long it > would go] IMHO the best drives out there are IBMs, VERY reliable,fast,quite,low heat. You probably want to look at the ES versions since these are their high availability disks.. I wouldn't buy any other drive at this point, for home or work related.. Good luck, -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom/inc.Net steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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