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

[Todd Flinders]

Yes, IBM drives tend to be VERY good.  Especially the
75GXP series.

And besides, at least IBM tries to put some money back
into Linux and promotion of Linux.

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 


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