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From: begonia@serv.net (Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system
Date: 13 Oct 1996 11:58:49 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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In article <u684ivwg3.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de>,  <mib@ppe.bb-data.de> wrote:
>fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) writes:
>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.

Well, add more data to the pile.  This almost exactly mirrors our
experience with them.  We got one, which was fine for a month and then
started to be behave oddly and by the end of the week it was dead.  We
exchanged it for another one, big mistake.  It's been causing problems
with our news server, partially because, as we discovered, that even
if you set it to terminate, it doesn't terminate properly.

We just a "Connor" Barracuda 4.0GB, since Seagate 4.0GB Barracudas are
nowhere to be found.  Supposedly it is Connor parts and Seagate
electronics.  We'll see how it does.

-- 
	    Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush  ServNet/Abstract Software
	 sjkb@abstractsoft.com   http://www.serv.net/~begonia
	 ``Just another one of the flock following the herd.''