Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:02:51 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010161302030.13234-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010130832240.2254-100000@yez.hyperreal.org>
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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
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