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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Alex Le Heux <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>
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Subject: Re: What to buy?
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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