Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
I build with all quantums now. They run good, fast and usually seems to be a good deal cooler then a seagate counter part. The main deciding factor is they have quick warranty turn. Seagates policy is CRAP! In the last 9 months I've used about 30 SCSI and IDE Fireballs, and half dozen 4gb atlas II. All everything has been 100% out of the box. My personal raid has been running well over a year with 4 1gb Atlas. - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On 11-Oct-97 Frank Sergeant wrote: Do you mean they spin 24/7, that they do not power down after a period of inactivity? I have been wondering whether letting the drives power down (as mine do at the moment) or having them not power down is better for their longevity. Also, whether running 24/7 or running just perhaps 14 hours a day is better. Anyone have any opinions or data about this? Well, it is a matter of electrical vs. mechanical longevity. If you leave them spinning, they are warmer and might cause the life of some components to be shorter but if you shut them off and let them cool down, the lubricant cools and there is more friction at power up till the lubricant heats up and starts working properly. If I shut some of my drives down and allow them to cool completely to room temperature, they make a terrible noise on power-up until they have completely warmed up. This is why the noisy drives go into the systems that run 24x7. If I hear them, I know there has been a power failure. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Frank Sergeant wrote: Do you mean they spin 24/7, that they do not power down after a period of inactivity? Yes. I have been wondering whether letting the drives power down (as mine do at the moment) or having them not power down is better for their longevity. Good question. I suppose it really depends on how often they are accessed - all my drives tend to be accessed regularly. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 08:38:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; and the third is about the same. All worked fine for at least the first 4-5 years of their life even though they were powered up 24/7/365. The 170 developed some bad sectors about 1/2 year ago; the younger 540 meg had the same problem at about the same time. The 5-year-old 540 meg is still going strong. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. I have similar good experiences with WD. I have a 730mb which is nearly 3 years old (light load, 24/7 operation) which works fine; actually come to think of it I have an old 340mb from about 4-5 years ago which has been running 24/7 for the last two years with no problems. The 730 has a bad sector or two and is quite noisy now but is otherwise fine. I have a 1.6GB in my workstation which is nearly two years old. I also have a Quantum 3.2Gb of about one year in this machine and I find the Quantum to be a bit slower. I would probably buy WD again, although I would want ultra DMA next, or maybe even SCSI (which WD don't do?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 56% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: hello, i personally have, as my primary drive, an IBM Deskstar 3.6gb. it's *fast* for an eide drive. it was rated fastest by a major computing magazine, although i forget which one. it definitely lives up to the billing. they run about $250 new from several outlets (insight, pczone, cdw, etc.) hope this helps, matty On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 08:38:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; and the third is about the same. All worked fine for at least the first 4-5 years of their life even though they were powered up 24/7/365. The 170 developed some bad sectors about 1/2 year ago; the younger 540 meg had the same problem at about the same time. The 5-year-old 540 meg is still going strong. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. I have similar good experiences with WD. I have a 730mb which is nearly 3 years old (light load, 24/7 operation) which works fine; actually come to think of it I have an old 340mb from about 4-5 years ago which has been running 24/7 for the last two years with no problems. The 730 has a bad sector or two and is quite noisy now but is otherwise fine. I have a 1.6GB in my workstation which is nearly two years old. I also have a Quantum 3.2Gb of about one year in this machine and I find the Quantum to be a bit slower. I would probably buy WD again, although I would want ultra DMA next, or maybe even SCSI (which WD don't do?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 56% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
hello, i personally have, as my primary drive, an IBM Deskstar 3.6gb. it's *fast* for an eide drive. it was rated fastest by a major computing magazine, although i forget which one. it definitely lives up to the billing. they run about $250 new from several outlets (insight, pczone, cdw, etc.) [At work] I handled last warranty hassle with IBM drive sometime before summer. We sell these 500pcs /year (single, or in computer), all kind, and some with 3 year onsite from us. Sure these cost a little more, but I think it's well worth it. If a customer want's something cheaper, then we sell Quatum, but I see these broken at least twice a month - no onsite for these. I remember one 20mb Conner drive years ago, that I just had to break - hammer: no go - threw it to street from second floor :no go - finally opened it up with screwdriver and voi'la. --j hope this helps, matty On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 08:38:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; and the third is about the same. All worked fine for at least the first 4-5 years of their life even though they were powered up 24/7/365. The 170 developed some bad sectors about 1/2 year ago; the younger 540 meg had the same problem at about the same time. The 5-year-old 540 meg is still going strong. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. I have similar good experiences with WD. I have a 730mb which is nearly 3 years old (light load, 24/7 operation) which works fine; actually come to think of it I have an old 340mb from about 4-5 years ago which has been running 24/7 for the last two years with no problems. The 730 has a bad sector or two and is quite noisy now but is otherwise fine. I have a 1.6GB in my workstation which is nearly two years old. I also have a Quantum 3.2Gb of about one year in this machine and I find the Quantum to be a bit slower. I would probably buy WD again, although I would want ultra DMA next, or maybe even SCSI (which WD don't do?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 56% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; and the third is about the same. All worked fine for at least the first 4-5 years of their life even though they were powered up 24/7/365. The 170 developed some bad sectors about 1/2 year ago; the younger 540 meg had the same problem at about the same time. The 5-year-old 540 meg is still going strong. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. John --Simon On 10 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital. Conner, I agree has horrible problems. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Notice: You may purchase the right to send me unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) for the fee of $500 (USD) per message. Billing can be either pre-arranged or can occur automatically after the reception of a spam. Failure to pay will be treated in accordance to US Code, title 47, sec. 227, which allows unsolicited e-mail to be punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss or $500, whichever is greater, per violation. Sending spam to me without payment constitutes unauthorized access to my mail daemon, which is in violation of federal law. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Ben Franklin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Notice: You may purchase the right to send me unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) for the fee of $500 (USD) per message. Billing can be either pre-arranged or can occur automatically after the reception of a spam. Failure to pay will be treated in accordance to US Code, title 47, sec. 227, which allows unsolicited e-mail to be punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss or $500, whichever is greater, per violation. Sending spam to me without payment constitutes unauthorized access to my mail daemon, which is in violation of federal law. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
WD is the only brand that I have seen go belly-up without warning. I am told that WD has recognized the problem and has applied fixes. The only drive I've lost was a WD one. But I have plenty of other WD drives that haven't given me any grief. I've had no problems with my Quantum drives either. Cheers, - Jim pgp3HJUmznkcJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Simon Karpen wrote: Looking around, I notice I have a lot of WD drives: 4GB, 4 months old 1.6GB, 1 year old * 1.6GB, 2.5 years old 800MB, approx 4 years old (got second hand) 200MB, 5 years old * This drive isn't on 24/7. All the rest are, and most have been for their entire lifespan. Do you mean they spin 24/7, that they do not power down after a period of inactivity? I have been wondering whether letting the drives power down (as mine do at the moment) or having them not power down is better for their longevity. Also, whether running 24/7 or running just perhaps 14 hours a day is better. Anyone have any opinions or data about this? -- Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital. Conner, I agree has horrible problems. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Notice: You may purchase the right to send me unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) for the fee of $500 (USD) per message. Billing can be either pre-arranged or can occur automatically after the reception of a spam. Failure to pay will be treated in accordance to US Code, title 47, sec. 227, which allows unsolicited e-mail to be punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss or $500, whichever is greater, per violation. Sending spam to me without payment constitutes unauthorized access to my mail daemon, which is in violation of federal law. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Although I don't have a 4GB one, I have had good luck with the smaller Quantum Fireball IDE drives. My Western Digital drives have had squeaky bearings right out of the box. Although some have reported problems with them, my Conner SCSI drive has been OK, and I think I have a Conner IDE that's OK too. My new 2.1GB laptop drive is a Seagate, and that works fine so far. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... --Simon On 10 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital. Conner, I agree has horrible problems. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Notice: You may purchase the right to send me unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) for the fee of $500 (USD) per message. Billing can be either pre-arranged or can occur automatically after the reception of a spam. Failure to pay will be treated in accordance to US Code, title 47, sec. 227, which allows unsolicited e-mail to be punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss or $500, whichever is greater, per violation. Sending spam to me without payment constitutes unauthorized access to my mail daemon, which is in violation of federal law. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Ben Franklin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
I have had bad and good luck with conner IDE, actually; a CFA series 528MB drive that's 3yr old and still going strong, but a CFS series (slower, cheaper) 850 that died after about a year. RPI ACM (not speaking for them) has had a relatively recent (18mo old?) Conner 2GB SCSI drive have problems that were fixed (i think) by exchanging it for a new drive. (either that or a format; i know it was getting errors and a new one came back a good while later w/o errors) Seagates tend to least a year or two than fail, from my experience. --Simon On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Although I don't have a 4GB one, I have had good luck with the smaller Quantum Fireball IDE drives. My Western Digital drives have had squeaky bearings right out of the box. Although some have reported problems with them, my Conner SCSI drive has been OK, and I think I have a Conner IDE that's OK too. My new 2.1GB laptop drive is a Seagate, and that works fine so far. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Ben Franklin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Simon Karpen wrote: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... How recent? Looking around, I notice I have a lot of WD drives: 4GB, 4 months old 1.6GB, 1 year old * 1.6GB, 2.5 years old 800MB, approx 4 years old (got second hand) 200MB, 5 years old None of these drives have ever given me any troubles. The only bad WD drive I've ever seen was a very old 40 MB drive that was a bit flakey. I hope I prove you wrong about my 4GB. ;-) -- see shy jo * This drive isn't on 24/7. All the rest are, and most have been for their entire lifespan. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On 11-Oct-97 Simon Karpen wrote: Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... I replaced a WD last weekend. I have Maxtor, Quantum and Samsung in my systems currently. The oldest is a used 300MB Maxtor that has to be at least 5 years old. It sticks and makes a lot of noise when it starts up if it is allowed to cool down but it generally runs 24x7 so that is not a problem. WD is the only brand that I have seen go belly-up without warning. I am told that WD has recognized the problem and has applied fixes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:28PM -0400, Tommy Lakofski wrote: I'm using a Seagate 2GB 5400rpm now... hopefully a slow drive won't run too hot and kill the bearings... I think if you keep a drive cool it'll have a better chance at longevity. The notice that came with my 7200 rpm Fujitsu M54-summat specified the maximum operating temperature. Everyone on comp.periphs.scsi said that it was not a joke, that all 7200 rpm drives had temperature limitations of that order, and that I could very well fry my drive without a fan. I put in a thermometer and very quickly decided on a _big_ fan. (An ex-286 power supply fan, cost 0$0cts :-) ) My drive is _cold_ now :-) What's this have to do with debian, anyway - I thought Linux was more or less hardware-independent now ;-) If reliability is your primary objective, rather than cost, buy two drives and mirror them. Hear, hear. Not to neglect backups, of course. -- include std_disclaim.h Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office had 4 other identical models die with dead spindles and data errors); a micropolis 1GB ages ago die after 18 months (another dead spindle), and I've known of WD quality control problems (caviar 1.6GB wrong cleaning fluid recall...) I'm using a Seagate 2GB 5400rpm now... hopefully a slow drive won't run too hot and kill the bearings... I think if you keep a drive cool it'll have a better chance at longevity. If reliability is your primary objective, rather than cost, buy two drives and mirror them. There's really no other alternative that will drastically reduce your risk of hardware failure. If you've really got money to burn, run them on a RAID controller too -- hardware RAID offers performance far better than software mirroring. TL On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Simon Karpen wrote: From: Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive Right now, my personal system has a Micropolis Stinger (5400rpm 4.3GB, Ultra SCSI), and hasn't had any problems. The drive is a bit noisy, but seems to be very solid. I've never had any real problems with Quantum drives, but I can say to stay away from any form of Conner/Seagate/Western Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
Terrence Brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. We want reliability first. Then cost second. I've had really good luck with the latest Seaagte Barracudas. They're very fast, but quite expensive. I've also heard that their cheaper drives might be troublesome. IBM also apparently has some really good drives now. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:41:28 -0400 (EDT), Tommy Lakofski wrote: Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office The Grand Prix was a well know peice of shit, and is no longer made. They replaced it with their Atlas line of drives which (the atlas II especially) have ran very very well. - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
On 09 Sep 1997 15:07:41 -0700, Terrence Brannon wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. I've been using Quantums in everything I built in the last year or so. They have been running 100%. They seem to run a good deal cooler then other manufactures in the same class (IE an Atlas runs much cooler the a Seagate 'Cuda ) The other reason I've been using Quantum is the Warranty turn around. When my 2G 'Cuda died on me it was about 3 weeks before I got a new drive back from Seagate. Quantum has something like a 2 day turn. We want reliability first. Then cost second. Get a DPT HBA and run RAID 6 (0+1). Get 6 2G Fireball ST drives. Nominal capacity is 6GB, super redundant, and will blow the doors of a 10,000RPM cheetah. This is the extreme...some simplier RAID solutions should also work well for you. Gimme a call if you need someone to build it (a plug never hurts, right : ) - http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. We want reliability first. Then cost second. Thanks, -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
