I've generally had good luck with Fujitsu's but did run into an
interesting problem with a 6 gig version of it. We bought a lot of 100
of the drives with a previous company I was with. In the production
line the drives had installed on them a whopping 75 megs of FreeBSD and
our software. Normally a drive to drive clone took on the order of 30
minutes (multiple drives on the receive end would slow it down somewhat)
What we did run into was 2 cases of drives (12 to a case) that were the
slowest clones I'd ever seen 16 hours to write 75 megs (limited
production test in our shop run once a problem had been found on the
line.) and format the drives. Once they were finished.... they ran
just fine. As long as you never had to write to them again. A 100k
copy from cd to HDD could take 25 to 30 minutes. Fujitsu sent out a rep
to look at the problem we had and left us two cases of 10 gig drives for
our trouble. (The gesture was appreciated but 6 gigs was already
overkill.) Never did find out why but it seemed to be a bad lot.
James
On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:57:23 -0400
darklord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 20 May 2002 09:56 pm, you wrote:
>
> > The other day I opened up a store bought system, and was bowled over
> > to see an oem fujitsu drive inside. Very interesting. I don't like
> > assembly line systems; the custom approach is much better. But this
> > looked like at least one thing they did right inside that box.
> >
> > I also ran into a couple of fujitsu 2.5" form factor drives in a
> > proprietary kiosk a while back, and I was pleasantly surprised at
> > how well they integrated into a desktop machine; no wierdisms with
> > slave/master stuff like with some other laptop drives I've seen.
> >
> > But I've never seen the inside of a Tivo...would be interesting to
> > hear about that!
> >
> > LX
>
> Can't comment about the Tivo (although I think they look interesting!)
> but my old 1992 Atari Falcon 030 computer used to use a Fujitsu (80
> megs! Wow!) 2.5 inch IDE drive...never had a problem out of it...
>
> Still rather use it than use a Win-box.... <grin>
>
> --
>
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