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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD????
Date: 19 Sep 1995 05:21:45 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Sep18222145@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt> <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>
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In-reply-to: jin@gracie.lbl.gov's message of 19 Sep 1995 00:15:50 GMT
In article <43l23m$c18@overload.lbl.gov> jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes:
In article <43j6cf$jmr@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>,
Ollivier Robert <roberto@hsc.fr.net> wrote:
>In article <43fdrk$o6l@titan.ci.ua.pt>,
>Fernando Cozinheiro <Fernando.Cozinheiro@ci.ua.pt> wrote:
>> I would appreciate very if someone could share his experience or
>> knowledge with me, about the following subjects:
>> - Does anyone installed already any Micropolis disk with this capacity?
>The problem is more on the 9 GB drive itself. I have some bad stories about
>the new Micropolis disks. In 6 months, at least 5 Micropolis died at some
>friends' sites. Be sure that it will be cooled enough. Heat is a serious
>problem with all the 7200 rpm drives.
Interesting. We have a few hundred GB Micropolis and Seagate drives for
at least a year. None of Micropolis disk had problem. A few Seagate disks
are dead right way.
I, too, would buy Micropolis before I'd buy Seagate. But my
information is all second-hand: I've heard lots (enough to be
significant enough that I'd remember them) of horror stories about
dying Seagate drives, and I've heard lots of really positive things
about Micropolis.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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