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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.maz.net!unlisys!news.bb-data.de!news From: mib@ppe.bb-data.de Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: 11 Oct 1996 08:36:44 +0200 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Sender: mib@LOSIRA Message-ID: <u684ivwg3.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <3249A04D.41C67EA6@cisco.com> <vw20fn92ks.fsf@mina.sr.hp.com> <DyLD7t.2II@metrics.com> <52rvki$5t4@newsbr.eunet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.11.4.39 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5101 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29019 fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) writes: > Regarding HP, availabiliy will soon become even more limited, since > they just abandoned the hard disk market (one or two weeks ago, reason > unknown, rumour from our suppliers, no hint in the press for the time > being). Could it be that they finally realised a thing or two about the quality of those drives? Our experience with HP SureStore drives are not exactly mixed. More like desastrous. They just die; first they develop bad spots. If you pay attention, you can suck off your date, hard-format the drive, and get another couple of months out of them. Then they're off. Our sample space is of course not statistically representative. But I wouldn't dream of buying one even if I still could.