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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18820 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:97 comp.os.linux.hardware:2425 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5471 comp.os.os2.misc:126897 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!mercury.interpath.net!not-for-mail From: ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net (Tom Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:40:19 -0500 Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3iebn3$kk6@mercury.interpath.net> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3i1617$929@mercury.interpath.net> <3i8tsm$1cg@sundog.tiac.net> <FOX.95Feb21070318@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.interpath.net In article <FOX.95Feb21070318@graphics.cs.nyu.edu>, David Fox <fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu> wrote: :In article <3i8tsm$1cg@sundog.tiac.net> rmk@tiac.net (Rick Kelly) writes: : :] Tom Wilson (ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net) wrote: :] :] : HP will also sell workstations with other than HP drives. My :] : current workstation (my old workstation had CDC's) arrived with a :] : pair of Quantums. Our techies prefer to replace them with HP :] : drives...they say they last quite a bit longer. :] :] Those HP drives must last a long time. I have five Quantum drives here. :] Two of them were manufactured in 1988, and have been running 24 hours :] per day since 1990. : :Jeez, could we discuss global warming or something now? How can :people expect to obtain meaningful statistical information about a :brand from personal experience with a few drives? Sure, but first let's talk your warming brow :-0 I didn't bother to say this, (because I didn't expect such petulance), but my experience extends to many hundreds more where I work. (we have well over a thousand HPs, but I'm sure a fair number of drives have been swapped out, since we've had a lot of them for several years, so I won't try for a close estimate) Now, if you're gonna jump up again and say HEY! swapouts mean they're failing, you're right...keep in mind though, that most of them get pounded a large portion of your typical 24 hour day in many different ways. Now, if you're gonna ask HOW? I'll tell ya, but, otherwise, I'm sure most folks have heard quite enough. -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Tom Wilson | "I can't complain, but sometimes | | ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net | I still do." | | | -Joe Walsh |