Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list))

[ninjaz]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote:

> Let me see if I have this straight.  At various times Western Digital, IBM, 
> Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons.  These makers 
> have also produced some very good drives.  Is that about right?
> 
> Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu?

I've heard nasty stories about Fujitsu, but I had 2 of them (IDE) in my
486, and they outlived the power supply in its tower case. :)

Regarding Seagate, I've had problems with them developing lots of
badblocks.   In the two systems I had functioning as servers w/ seagate
drives (SCSI) they both began dropping blocks within 1-3 years.  One of
those has a fairly hard-hit RAID w/ 4 IBM drives the array.  None of those
have failed yet (after 3+ years)

All of the new systems I've built in the past year or so (around five) 
have IBM drives now.  None of those has had any problems at all, and some
of them are servers with constant load. 

                                        -pete