Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:25:28 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thumbs up? Or down?? (disk recommend) Message-ID: <199511291425.IAA14156@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199511290517.AAA02331@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Nov 29, 95 00:17:11 am
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> In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >> Greetings! > >> I was planning on picking up some MC3243 drives (4.3G, 8.?mS) > >> and wondered if any have comments pro or con? > >> Thanx! > > >Exec-PC just returned a boatload of these to the manufacturer. Tooo many > >failures under moderate to heavy use. Buy a Barracuda instead and put a big > >fan on it. > > Screw that, we have about 80% failure on Barracuda's we have so far. Shoot for > the Connor 4207S, runs cold, 7200RPM, fast as snot, works perfect so far. I get about a 1 in 30 failure (1 yr period) on the Barracudas (32550 class) and haven't seen a 15150 fail yet, although the sample size is small for those. The 12550's are bad iff you don't keep them cool - which most people fail to do. This isn't a bad set of statistics, in my experience. As for the Conner drives, are you serious? Sun Microsystems recently learned a hard lesson about getting what you pay for - they dumped their "traditional" vendor, Seagate, in favor of Conner - burning some bridges as they did so - and when they discovered the incredibly high failure rate of the Conner drives under moderate to heavy use, they actually _stopped_ shipping the Conner drives and quickly depleted their surplus of Seagates. I can just imagine that Seagate is now making a little more money off of Sun's smaller discounts. :-) I'm not saying all Conner drives are bad or all Seagates are good, I can pose many counterexamples for both. But there's one vendor's experiences. When it comes right down to it, disk technology just isn't incredibly reliable. :-/ ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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