Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:36:35 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Alexey Koptsevich <alex@astro.su.se>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reliable HDD brand Message-ID: <200109280336.f8S3aZZ71503@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:20:04 %2B0200." <20010927182004.C3486@raggedclown.net> References: <E15mZnN-000DWu-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> <200109271431.f8REV6Y28398@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20010927182004.C3486@raggedclown.net>
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:31:06AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I would like to buy IDE HDDs for RAID, 40 Gb. Which IDE HDD brand is more > > >> reliable? Any useful links, your experience? For the moment we have chosen > > >> IBM Ericsson. > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Alex > > > > > >I think HP disks are generally reckoned to be the top-notch, but they > > >come at a premium. > > > > Umm. HP doesn't even make disks anymore. Instead they rebrand > > Fujitsu, IBM, or Seagate drives. > > > > -- > > Justin > Oh ok. > Well they used to have a reasonably well founded reputation for > super reliability (and price). > Sorry if my information is out of date. Right up until they had a serious, serious problem with their SCSI drives. We replaced these things by the dozens 5 or 6 years ago. Twice. Then I guess they decided they really didn't want to be in the disk business any longer, and that was that. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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