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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:24:41 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 23 Message-ID: <543n2t$p67@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <3249A04D.41C67EA6@cisco.com> <vw20fn92ks.fsf@mina.sr.hp.com> <DyLD7t.2II@metrics.com> <52rvki$5t4@newsbr.eunet.fr> <u684ivwg3.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5133 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29376 mib@ppe.bb-data.de wrote: >Could it be that they finally realised a thing or two about the >quality of those drives? >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. Well, the quality of the drives may be mixed: we got about 10% returns, which is almost as high as Seagate. They still didn't get near as far as Western Digital (for which we have near 100% return, with only one drive still working after 4 years) and Kalok (100% return, unbeatable !) The one fine thing about these HP drives was HP support: we really got exchanges between 5 hours and 1 day after failure, no questions asked, freigh paid by HP. They must have gathered such a support cost them much too dearly to keep it up to their quality exigences.