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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!news.mr.net!news.goldengate.net!not-for-mail From: mury@goldengate.net (Mury) Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Message-ID: <a107cc$d1316.296@news.goldengate.net> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:24:33 GMT References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <DyLD7t.2II@metrics.com> <52rvki$5t4@newsbr.eunet.fr> <u684ivwg3.fsf@ppe.bb-data.de> <53re59$a6b@itchy.serv.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5139 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29439 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 GoldenGate Internet Services