> Anyone out there have any information on a 9 Gig
> Micropolis (sp?) Disk? Information being how they
> are performing within your AFS enviroment? Any
> feedback would be appreciated
I've heard from various sources that the Micropolis 9 GB drives are
far less reliable than the Seagates, which themselves aren't all that
reliable. We have a dozen or so of the Seagate 9 GB drives (not used
for AFS) and about 20-25% have either been DOA or have died within the
first month of service. Performance has been acceptable when they are
working, but we've made a point of using them only for staging large,
sequentially accessed physics data files, where the relatively slow
access times aren't a significant issue. I doubt many AFS applicatons
would have this sort of access pattern. (We use moderate speed 4 GB
drives on our AFS file servers, to spread the access load over more
drives, and, as it turns out, for better reliability.)
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(SLAC and the US Dept. of Energy don't necessarily agree with my opinions.)
