Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:02:49 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@yourchoice.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970502160137.19673A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970502143108.alexlh@sarah.yc>
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Alex Le Heux wrote: > Ian Vaudrey writes: > > [stuff cut] > > > > > > 8 GB SCSI HD (Seagate?) > > > > I've no experience of Seagate SCSI drives, but I've had several of > > their IDE drives fail. The high failure rate of Seagate units has also > > been reported on recently in Computer Shopper (UK). I use Fujitsu SCSI > > drives in my servers with no failures to date. > > > I have exactly the opposite experience. We have several Seagate Baraccuda > drives here, and the have been _working_ very hard for the past year. No > problems whatsoever. I know of several other people who have Baraccuda drives > and they haven't had any problems either. > > Fujitsu on the other hand... Over the past year I've come accross 6 Fujitsu > drives, none of which is still alive. They all started to have problems after > about a two months of heavy use. > > > > SCSI Tape Drive (Seagate?) > > > > Travan? No experience of these, so no comments. > > > [more stuff cut] > > I have always been a big fan of HP DAT drives. We own several here, and they > perform flawlessly. It costs much more than a DAT drive, but the absolute top-of-the-line for tapes is DLT tapes. The base drive is manufactured by quantum (though it is sold by various OEMs). It is simply unlike any other tape drive. > > Just my fl. 0,02 > > Cheers, > > Alex > -- > /// I dabble in techno-house and sometimes, > /// I do that badass hip-hop thang... > /// But the F U N K gets me every time! > Nadav
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