From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 16 4: 3: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B636E37B670 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14213; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:02:51 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:02:51 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > > IMO, WD went to pot years back their choice on concentrating on the low end > > market doesn't help. Seagate's IDE drives seem to have been among the > > slowest around. Years back started having better results with Maxtor and > > then IBM came in with the best performance and price for *both* SCSI and > > IDE. Many have talked about their good experiences with the former, but > > can't say I recall much on the latter. > > I've had two recent IBM drives (both U2W 36G, out of four recently > purchased) fail on me recently within weeks of purchase. I would hesitate > to recommend them again, which is unfortunate because they used to be > completely trustable. You cannot make conclusions. Perhaps this series of drives left the factory in an unfortunate day :) --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message