Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 21:49:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: wcarchive.cdrom.com (also known as ftp.freebsd.org) back up. Message-ID: <199504290149.VAA11818@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199504281657.JAA14637@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 28, 95 09:57:17 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > We subsequently had some rather significant hardware hurdles to jump over, > not the least of which was 3 brand-new Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB hard drives > going south unexpectedly. Given that this is 4 GPs I've lost in 4 weeks > (2 of which died in completely different environmental circumstances, so > it's not just our machine room), I think it's safe to say that Quantum may > be having some quality control problems with these drives! :-( I've > switched back to the Seagate Barracuda drives and all seems happy again. > The Seagates are even about $100 cheaper, so my traditional prejudice against > Seagate may be weakening here. Could someone provide details on the drive failures? Thanks. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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