Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:50:31 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: Dragon Knight <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> Cc: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Caviar Hard Drives Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980924184530.-83483F-100000@direct-source.com.direct-source.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01bde826$4af651e0$43bd80d0@little-death>
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> > There have been a lot of problems with Caviars lately. (Within the > >last year,) I personally suggest going with Fuji or better yet, SCSI > >Quantum Atlas IIs :) > > Really? I have had a Caviar 36400 for about 6 months > now and i have had nothing but good luck with it, it has > been in numerous different machine's with different setups > and has always performed flawlessly. What sort of > problems have people been having lately? When I worked in the computer store as a hardware technician, we recommended Caviars up until about the 2gigs came out. (Even the 1.2s had quite a few problems.) It seems that whenever Western Digital decides to start making SCSI again, their IDE quality bombs. Some problems you'll see, missing blocks, no spin up on power down, a 'clicking noise' that happens when it powers up, and sometimes after it runs for a couple of hours. WD's RMA service is great, but it takes 2-3 weeks to get it replaced. (Heck most the time you come out with a bigger hard drive!) As for good quality hard drives, I've had very good luck with Fuji IDE, Quantum IDEs aren't that great, Maxtors are OK. Now, Quantum SCSI hard drives have been great for me! Far better then any of the newer Seagates and Micropolis! Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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