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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!elausrv2.att.net.au!surya From: Richard Laxton <richard@real.net.au> 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 15:47:50 +1000 Organization: RealNet Access Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3248C786.1C89@real.net.au> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <324706D7.EA8@airmail.net> Reply-To: richard@real.net.au NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.17.240.113 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4974 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27960 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