Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:59:12 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) Message-ID: <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain>
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On Tuesday, 29 October 2002 at 2:03:50 +0000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: >>> I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives >>> are pretty unreliable though. >>> >> Hrmm, I havn't tried those, but just about every WD drive I've used has >> ended up with problems which were of course handled by the warranty, but >> even then, I still had to reinstall the os and pull a bunch of stuff from >> my backups which was a pain to do for each failure. Like I said, just my >> personal experience. I don't think the new 8MB cache drives have been out >> long enough to actually develop the problems I've seen on WD drives >> though. > > Yes, but my point is that the AA drives are bad, but the BB drives seem > good. I have been using them for a while (~1 year) without trouble. I've had trouble with BB drives. Given that they have (or had) a 3 year warranty, 1 year of experience isn't very much to go by. > Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - > they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time > it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding > what to buy a PITA :( That's a more valid point. Note that WD and Seagate have dropped their warranty on IDE drives from 3 years to 1 year. What does this say to you? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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