Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:36:59 -0500 From: "Jason A. Crome" <crome@devnetinc.com> To: "'Scott T. Smith'" <scott@gelatinous.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted Message-ID: <20040629174712.B08D82000301@beowulf.devnetinc.com> In-Reply-To: <1088533730.12038.49.camel@tinny.home.foo>
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In a word, yeah. In a few more words, I wish we hadn't found out the hard way about the high failure rates. Has been no end of trouble for us. -------------------------------------------------- Jason A. Crome Senior Software Engineer, DEVNET, Inc. E-Mail: crome@devnetinc.com http://www.devnetinc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Scott T. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:29 PM > To: Jason A. Crome > Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted > > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:22, Jason A. Crome wrote: > > I can't imagine a higher failure rate than we've had with > Hitachi drives. > > Of the 15 or so servers we've built for customers using > Hitachi drives > > over the last 2 years, 6 of them came back after about a year of > > operation with catastrophic drive failures. And unfortunately it > > wasn't just a bad batch of drives - they were manufactured > at entirely different times. > > > > Sooooo, I guess give the two options, I'd say Seagate ;-) > > Isn't the current Hitachi drive business just IBM's old drive > business, which they offloaded a couple years back when they > were having the high failure rates of the DeskStar 75? > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/04/0050238 > > http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002may/gee20020605012041.htm > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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