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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:28:29 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BackUp Drive
Message-ID:  <19991029082829.A7680@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <38199841.9483CAE0@tdis.gctc.rssi.ru>
References:  <38199841.9483CAE0@tdis.gctc.rssi.ru>

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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]

Bill
-- 
Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 


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