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#! rnews 3919 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!svc.portal.com!portal.com!combdyn!lawrence From: lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen) Subject: Re: SCSI drive recommendation Message-ID: <1995Jul11.163058.21684@combdyn.com> Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd. References: <PHILS.95Jul10091937@satori.tv.tek.com> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:30:58 GMT Lines: 72 phils@satori.tv.tek.com (Phil Staub) writes: I don't have experience with FreeBSD yet, I do with SCSI drives and UNIX... >This is an appeal to the collective wisdom of the readers of this group to >help me select a 1GB (or thereabouts) SCSI-2 drive to replace my Seagate >ST31200N, which died due to massive media errors over the weekend >after only 10 months of use. I bought the drive against my better >judgement, and it appears I should have listened to my instincts. >(Yes, I will be sending it in for warranty service, but I won't be >using it for critical data when I get it back.) We had one of these on our HP735, it too is dead in about 10 months of use. >I'm looking at the Hard Drives International ad in the June Computer >Shopper, and the choices I seem to have are > Seagate (out for obvious reasons) > Micropolis (not considered due to no drive in the 1GB range) > Fujitsu I'm currently leaning toward this one > Connor Pretty small cache here. Performance? > Quantum Seems to be quite expensive for the class of > drive it is. > Fujitsu is a nice fast drive, however if you are running other devices on the same bus, stay away from it. I had a 520Meg Fujitsu that would not work with my NEC CDROM drive, it was extremely sensitive to termination....had to go to expensive FPTs. And, then when I added another SCSI drive...things stopped working again. I can't comment on performance for the (newer) Conner, but reliability in my experience has been very good. I run a multiline BBS off of one...and it was in active operation for over 7 years. Quantum - expensive? I picked up three LT730S for $299.95US each....I think they are around $249.95US now. Nice quick and pretty good drives. I did have one that was DOA, but I had it replaced under warranty and so far no problems. All the drives in my home system are Quantums now (270S, 540S, and 3 730S). In this machine, I have a Quantum EM1080....I'm running Interactive Unix. Tentatively this is the drive I'm ordering for the FreeBSD firewall that I'm setting up next month. >In that issue, there's an evaluation of 10 1GB drives (both EIDE and >SCSI) in which an HP drive is mentioned that looks >interesting. However, none of the ads in the mag have that particular >drive. Anyone know anything about that drive and/or where to find it? HP is a good quality drive.....for our office it will be the brand of choice in the future with our HP systems (at least). -- WORK: lawrence@combdyn.com | PHONE 403 529 2162 | FAX 529 2516 | VE6LKC HOME: dreamer@lhaven.uumh.ab.ca | 403 526 6019 | 529 5102 | VE6PAQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- disclamer = (working_for && !representing) + (Combustion Dynamics Ltd.); -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAy8TC1oAAAEEALQBZWiWDzAc4xJla2treuBdcvHS8n7y+k/u68Yv4sGE33Qj EIrPbcDM7DL9FpF6R1xlR6FXRhfIPjDooVzfKQTynFqdv7KWRt493+41vxRZ8QZv T6oYn72LN+8nuguhcPH1Mar1SNQD1yUmOkNOfs+jFMnhBLGHnlljEwtIpOrNAAUR tCdMYXdyZW5jZSBLLiBDaGVuIDxsYXdyZW5jZUBjb21iZHluLmNvbT60LExhd3Jl bmNlIEsuIENoZW4gPGRyZWFtZXJAbGhhdmVuLnV1bWguYWIuY2E+iQCVAwUQLxrf PX17l+W35j7xAQF8MgP/U82YRvI9N7rFvmfq5uhc7k7hbfS8T43D4obcNIou98Ye Rh7ZUWOockp74dAk9FgTJEyUxSTVi/JEwzthM9llleQ28IE3HLZ2YPdwE0biSm8L frgoM5ifqj9EmjvY0Hw97inyGR2REjtwjvpKLYvEYEUPcmMhi5Kfqh89bNJ7ylI= =MB3j -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----