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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!usenet From: Tushar Patel <tpatel@austin.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:26:58 +0000 Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 56 Message-ID: <32497972.41C6@austin.ibm.com> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <324706D7.EA8@airmail.net> <3248C786.1C89@real.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: spur07.austin.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; AIX 2) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4978 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27977 How is Segate "kaymen"(Sic) drive? What I understand is, this are really CONNER drive, but after the merger CONNER drive is called Kaymen. SO, anybody have good experience with CONNER drive? Richard Laxton wrote: > > Andi Baritchi wrote: > > > > Tushar Patel wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just had bad experience with segate drive. so, before I buy new > > > drive I want to hear from you. > > > > > > How are the following drives: > > > > > > QUANTUM FIREBALL 1280S 630C > > > LPS340S 020B > > > > > > > > > Please make suggestions. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tushar > > > > I would stay away from Quanum drives in general. I have had too much > I would probably agree. We have had five (5) Quantum Empire drives fail > in the past. I do know one RAID distributor in Australia who is using > the Quantum Atlas drives (2Gb and 4Gb) and has sold many hundreds and > not had a single failure. They tend to use Mylex SCSI-SCSI RAID > controllers (if this matters). > > > trouble with their high end drives (4GB Grand Prix's and Atlases). I > > don't know about the fireballs, but they're probably just smaller, > > cheaper, and lower quality versions of their big brohters. I use > > Seagate Barracudas exclusively and they're great. I too know about > > seagate's bad reputation in the past, but the cudas are top-notch (I'm > > not really familiar with their low-end drives either, though). If > > you've got the money to get Barracudas (and the 2GB's aren't worth it: > > $750 for ST32550N (2GB FastSCSI-2), $950 for ST15150N (4GB FastSCSI-2). > What about Micropolis and Fujitsu. I have heard good things about both > in the past. > In case you haven't noticed, I am searching for new drives too. > > > > > Who knows, the Quantums might be good! But I wouldn't risk it. I've > > never had a bad Barracuda, and I've used many. But I've had MANY bad > > Quantums (out of MANY + 1). > > > > Just my $.02 (or $.03 in some areas), > > > > Andi Baritchi > > andi@airmail.net