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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) 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 19:16:41 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 15 Message-ID: <529vso$1jd@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <324706D7.EA8@airmail.net> <3248C786.1C89@real.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: demo3-cng.s-ip.eunet.fr X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4981 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27982 At our company (which resells lots of drives), we consider Seagate disks to return much too fast from customer to the repair line, with real high failure rates. Micropolis drives don't have thiese problems, but there are often annoying firmware glitches which require new firmware downloading and/or tuning of disk adapters. We've never had any return from Fujitsu, nor IBM. On the whole, we tend to recommend IBM drives in the general case, Fujitsu in some niches, and Micropolis when the configuration is one of those known no to not run into any firmware trouble. Never ever tried Maxtors.