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From: mury@goldengate.net (Mury)
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:24:33 GMT
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begonia@serv.net (Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush) wrote:

>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.

I would never use a Barracuda in a News Server.  They run way too hot.
Buy the cheaper Hawk for a News Server.  It won't burn out like the
"better" Barracuda.

Mury
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