Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!gatech!ken From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Seagate ST-4096 Question Message-ID: <17207@gatech.edu> Date: 2 Jun 88 10:54:25 GMT References: <1036@bellboy.UUCP> <1031@nuchat.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 21 In my experience, Seagate drives should be avoided at all costs. This is a simple case of you get what you pay for; Seagates are the cheapest in price and the lowest in quality. In my last job, we had 3 Seagates drives die no more than 3 months after we got them. Then we had 4 seagates fail COMPSURF. Note that these were the only Seagates we had. I'm sure someone out there will flame back and say that they have this Seagate that has run 24-hours a day for 5 years. That person got lucky. The hard disk is the most important part of a Unix system. Spend a few bucks to get one that wont die... BTW: CDC, Fujitsu and Hitachi make (in my opinion) the best hard drives. ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu inhp4, masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, ccastks@gitvm1.bitnet unmvax, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken soon to be open: ...!gatech!spooge!ken (finally ;'})