i have had an absolute shocker with seagate drives. i like their scsi drives but as far as IDE goes, NO WAY. as was said in a previous post - IDE reliability is basically a thing of the past.
i have a 3 gig fujitsu drive that has never given me a problem in 6 years of usage. i dunno about their current drives though. i think you should just stay away from IDE in general. Tom "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." -F. Scott Fitzgerald- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul L Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marty Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices > > > The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate. > > (theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago) > > Guess that goes to prove the comments previously that all manufacturers tend to have 'lemons' produced now and then. > > > Quantums are not good - been replacing lots of them lately, several > > I'll tend to agree with this, I've seen more Quantum pile up on my 'dud' desk than most. Of course, throwing in to the bias is the fact that they just don't even look/feel solid IMHO. > > > > IBM are worrying. Aside from the numerous bad reports I have seen the > > 18Gb SCSI's pack up repetitively. > > There's also their whole mean-usage-hours reduction in their testing/reliability specifications. > > > > Maxtors and Western Digital are ok-ish, and Seagate's are good. > > WD's tend to come in 2nd to Quantum for failure rate... of course, all this is purely speculation based on my own experiences. > > -- > Paul L Daniels http://www.pldaniels.com > Linux/Unix systems Internet Development > ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex > A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
